xiè
idle
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 解 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 懈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
untiring | ||
invulnerable | ||
to persevere unremittingly (idiom); to keep going until the end | ||
to relax | ||
slack |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.0434% of movies
2840th most common character in movies
2689th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+61C8 |
Shuowen | “懈,怠也。从心,解聲。” |
Sources
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