yě
open country
Variant of 野. Depicts an area filled with trees (林) and dirt (土) found on the outskirts of a city.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lAʔ | yaeX | yě | open country |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 35.0152% of movies
1019th most common character in movies
845th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+57DC |
Shuowen | “野，郊外也。从里，予聲。，古文野，从里省，从林。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.914
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