Chinese Character Wiki
悔

huǐ

repent

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

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

每 sound component

每  Sound component

měi

  

every

Evolution

悔 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
悔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
悔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

悔  

huǐ

repent, show remorse, regret; to regret

Most common words with 悔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

后悔

to regret

忏悔

to confess

悔

to regret

悔恨

remorse

懊悔

to repent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤəʔ

xwojX

huǐ

regret, repent


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 23.1940% of movies

1348th most common character in movies

1853rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6094

Shuowen

“悔，悔恨也。从心，每聲。”


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