huì
beak
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t-l̥o[rʔ]-s | tsyhwejH | huì | snout; to pant |
*l̥o[rʔ]-s (W dialect: *l̥- > MC x-) | xjwojH | huì | snout; to pant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3990th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5599 |
Shuowen | “喙，口也。从口，彖聲。” |
Sources
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