huài
rotten
Simplified form of 壞. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 褱 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 80.3940% of movies
455th most common character in movies
832nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+574F |
Shuowen | “坏,丘再成者也。一曰瓦未燒。从土,不聲。” |
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