shē
extravagant
Phonosemantic compound. 大 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 奢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
luxurious | ||
luxurious | ||
an extravagant hope | ||
luxury good | ||
extravagant |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.tʰA | syae | shē | extravagant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.0457% of movies
2527th most common character in movies
2708th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5962 |
Shuowen | “奢，張也。从大，者聲。奓，籀文。” |
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