hé
examine into
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤək-s | hojH | hé | investigate |
*[g]ˤək | hok | hé | investigate, try (a criminal) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3597th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+52BE |
Shuowen | “劾，法有辠也。从力，亥聲。” |
Sources
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