xié
together
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 皆 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 偕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
in company with | ||
to grow old together | ||
until death do us part | ||
along with | ||
together (literary) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤrij | keaj | xié | together |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3705th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5055 |
Shuowen | “偕，彊也。从人，皆聲。《詩》曰：‘偕偕士子’。一曰俱也。” |
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