心 - Dong Chinese dictionary

xīn

heart

Depicts a heart.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

心

xīn

heart; mind, intelligence; soul; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[kē],個|个[gè]

Most common words with 心

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	心	heart
	担心	anxious
	中心	center
	开心	to feel happy
	小心	to be careful

Component uses

Meaning component in 94 characters (36 verified)

想意應应感惪思怎愛念態态志愬愿急您恶惡恩恐忽寧慾忘忍悲慶悉憂恋戀惠悤怨㥯甯怒患愈忠憑慈慧惑慰惩懲悶闷悬懸愚忌悠愁恥恳懇惹恕慼芯憊怠憋忒忿慫怂憨恙恿恚恣忐忑懋憩懑懣懟怼恁愆愍戆戇悫慝恧憝恝忞

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

憲芯沁吣

Simplified component in 2 characters (2 verified)

应虑

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*səm	sim	xīn	heart

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 99.7117% of movies

89th most common character in movies

90th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	4
Unicode	U+5FC3
Shuowen	“心，人心。土藏，在身之中。象形。博士說以為火藏。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.787

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