huì
general term for plants
Depicts a group of plants (屮, 艹). Originally written as 芔 (屮, 艸) resulting in its erroneous replacement of the once visually similar but unrelated form of 犇 (run) within some characters.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 卉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
flowers and plants | ||
plants | ||
exotic flowers and rare herbs (idiom) | ||
rare and exotic flora (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r̥]u[j]ʔ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-) | xjw+jX | ||
xjw+jH | huì |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3341st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5349 |
Shuowen | “卉，艸之總名也。从艸、屮。” |
Sources
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