shà, xià
big building
Phonosemantic compound. 厂 represents the meaning and 夏 represents the sound. Simplified form of 廈.
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Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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(used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) | ||
Xiamen or Amoy, subprovincial city in Fujian, abbr. 廈|厦[Xià] | ||
mansion | ||
also known as Amoy | ||
tall building |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤraʔ | haeX | xià | house, room |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1326% of movies
2483rd most common character in movies
2264th most common character in books
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+53A6 |