幸 - Dong Chinese dictionary

xìng

fortunate

Origin unclear.

Components

犬 Unknown component

quǎn

dog

The purpose of this component is unclear.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 犬 than it was in ancient scripts.

矢 Unknown component

shǐ

arrow

Here 矢 is rotated upside-down. Similar to 至. The purpose of this component is unclear.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 矢 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

幸

xìng

luck(ily), favor, fortunately; fortunate; lucky

幸

Xìng

surname Xing

幸 (倖)

xìng

trusted; intimate; (of the emperor) to visit; variant of 幸[xìng]

Most common words with 幸

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	幸福	happiness
	幸运	fortunate
	不幸	misfortune
	荣幸	honored (to have the privilege of ...)
	幸	trusted

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

倖

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

倖悻圉

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[g]ˤreŋʔ	heangX	xìng	fortunate

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 73.9548% of movies

515th most common character in movies

902nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Unicode	U+5E78
Shuowen	“，吉而免凶也。从屰，从夭。夭死之事，故死謂之不。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

季旭昇《說文新證》p.768-769

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