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協

xié

cooperate

Phonosemantic compound. 劦 represents the meaning and 十 represents the sound.

Components
十 sound component

十  Sound component

shí

  

ten

劦 sound,meaning component

劦  Sound Meaning component

xié, liè

  

cooperate, combined labor

Evolution

協 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
協 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
協 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
協 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

协 (協) 

xié

be united; cooperate; to cooperate; to harmonize; to help; to assist; to join

Most common words with 協
Freq.
Word
Meaning

协议

pact

协会

a society

协调

to coordinate

协助

to aid

妥协

to compromise

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤep

hep

xié

in harmony


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 34.9191% of movies

1076th most common character in movies

735th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Simplified

协

Unicode

U+5354

Shuowen

“協，眾之同和也。从劦，从十。旪，古文協，从曰、十。叶，或从口。”


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