huì
bright
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 彗 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤe[t]-s | hwejH | huì | intelligent |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 9.4986% of movies
2034th most common character in movies
1505th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+6167 |
Shuowen | “慧，儇也。从心，彗聲。” |
Sources
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