hài
injure
Original meaning:
spearhead
Pictograph of a pointed spearhead. The distinguishing mark 口 was added later. Based on the original meaning "spearhead", now written as 𥎆. The meaning later shifted to "harm" and "injure".
Components
口 Distinguishing component
kǒu
mouth
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-kˤat-s | hajH | hài | be hurt (v.i.); injury (n.) |
*m-kˤat-s | hajH | hài | hurt (v.t.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 86.5770% of movies
298th most common character in movies
579th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5BB3 |
Shuowen | “害,傷也。从宀,从口。宀、口,言从家起也。丰聲。” |
Sources
何琳儀《戰國古文字典:戰國文字聲系》p.898
林志強《《文源》評注》p.520
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