xiè

lay down

Components
午 unknown component

  Unknown component

  

noon

止 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

stop

卩 sound component

  Sound component

jié

  

person kneeling

Evolution

卸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
卸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiè

lay down; retire from office; to unload; to unhitch; to remove or strip; to get rid of

Most common words with 卸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to unload

卸下

to unload

推卸

to shift (the blame)

卸妆

to remove makeup

装卸

to transfer

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s

sjaeH

xiè

to unload


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.2790% of movies

2394th most common character in movies

2479th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5378

Shuowen

“卸,舍車解馬也。从卪、止、午。”


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