feel anguish

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

则 sound component

  Sound component

  

rule

Evolution

恻 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
恻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
恻 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
恻 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
恻 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

feel anguish, feel compassion; sorrowful

Most common words with 恻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

sorrowful

恻隐之心

compassion

缠绵悱恻

very sentimental

恻隐

compassion

凄恻

heartbroken

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3896th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+607B


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