Chinese Character Wiki

怯

qiè

lacking in courage

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

去 sound component

去  Sound component

qù

  

go away

Evolution

怯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

怯  

qiè

lacking in courage, afraid; timid; cowardly; rustic; Taiwan pr. [què]

Most common words with 怯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胆怯

timidity

怯

timid

怯场

to have stage fright

怯懦

timid

羞怯

shy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5148% of movies

2928th most common character in movies

2488th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+602F

Shuowen

“，多畏也。从犬，去聲。怯，杜林說，从心。”


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