Chinese Character Wiki
夏

xià

summer

Pictograph of a person, represented by their head (頁) and feet (夂), being heated underneath the sun (日). The sun component was later omitted for brevity during the Warring States period.

Components
日 deleted component

日  Deleted component

rì

  

sun

The sun (日) component began to be omitted for brevity during the Warring States period.

頁 iconic component

頁  Iconic component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head.

夂 iconic component

夂  Iconic component

zhǐ

  

go

Depicts a foot.

Evolution

夏 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
夏 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
夏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
夏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
夏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

夏  

xià

summer; great, grand, big

夏  

Xià

the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432); surname Xia

Most common words with 夏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

夏天

summer

夏

summer

夏威夷

Hawaii, US state

夏季

summer

夏日

summertime

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

厦 廈 嗄

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤraʔ

haeX

xià

great

*[g]ˤraʔ (~ *[g]ˤraʔ-s)

haeH

xià

summer


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 21.9286% of movies

1144th most common character in movies

1126th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+590F

Shuowen

“夏，中國之人也。从夊、从頁、从。，兩手；夊，兩足也。，古文（夏）。”


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