chè
sprout
Half of 艸 (grass). Depicts a blade of grass.
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
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 3 |
Unicode | U+5C6E |
Shuowen | “屮,艸木初生也。象丨出形,有枝莖也。古文或以為艸字。讀若徹。” |
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