hái
child
Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤə | hoj | hái | child |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 94.1214% of movies
133rd most common character in movies
533rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5B69 |
Shuowen | “咳，小兒笑也。从口，亥聲。孩，古文咳从子。” |
Sources
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