xiè

slight

Hands grasping  and tearing apart a dress 

Components
衣 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

执 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhí

  

hold in hand

Evolution

亵 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
亵 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
亵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
亵 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
亵 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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xiè

dirty, ragged; slight, insult, treat with disrespect; obscene; disrespectful

Most common words with 亵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

亵渎

to blaspheme

猥亵

obscene

obscene

淫亵

obscene

亵慢

irreverent

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.9244% of movies

2609th most common character in movies

3495th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+4EB5


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