xué
learning
Depicts two hands (𦥑) teaching a child (子) under a roof (宀). 爻 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kˤruk | haewk | xué | study; imitate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 88.3550% of movies
196th most common character in movies
66th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5B78 |
Shuowen | “斆,覺悟也。从教,从冖,冖,尚矇也,臼聲。學,篆文斅省。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.247-248
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