Dong Chinese dictionary

xí

seat, mat

Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 庶 represents the sound.

Components

shù

numerous

席 and 庶 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.席 /*s-m-tAk/
庶 /*s-tak-s/

巾 Meaning component

jīn

cloth

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xí

seat; mat; take seat; banquet; woven mat; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc

Xí

surname Xi

xí

variant of 席[xí]

Most common words with 席

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	主席	chairperson
	出席	to attend
	首席	chief (representative, correspondent etc)
	毛主席	Chairman Mao
	席	seat

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