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悸

jì

fearful

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

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

季 sound component

季  Sound component

jì

  

season

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
悸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

悸  

jì

fearful, apprehensive, perturbed; to palpitate

Most common words with 悸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

心悸

palpitation

悸动

to pound

心有余悸

to have lingering fears

悸

to palpitate

惊悸

shaking in fear

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ʷi[t]-s

gjwijH

jì

agitated


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3561st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+60B8

Shuowen

“悸，心動也。从心，季聲。”


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