shē

extravagant

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
大 meaning component

  Meaning component

dài

  

big

者 sound component

  Sound component

zhě

  

one who...

Evolution

奢 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
奢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shē

extravagant, wasteful; exaggerate; extravagant

Most common words with 奢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奢侈

luxurious

奢华

luxurious

奢望

an extravagant hope

奢侈品

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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