xiá
small box
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 匣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
box | ||
(airplane) black box | ||
magazine (for ammunition) | ||
chatterbox | ||
small box |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤr[a]p | haep | xiá | box |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3061st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5323 |
Shuowen | “匣，匱也。从匚，甲聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
