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戏

xì

play

Original meaning: 

military troops outside the main group

Simplified form of 戲. Phonosemantic compound. 戈 represents the meaning and 䖒 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "military troops outside the main group". The meaning later shifted to "sport" and "play".

Components
又 simplified component

又  Simplified component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Shorthand for the 䖒 component in the traditional character 戲.

戈 meaning component

戈  Meaning component

gē

  

spear

Evolution

戏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
戏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
戏 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
戏 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
戏 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

戏 (戲) 

xì

theatrical play, show; trick; drama; play; show; CL:齣|出[chū],場|场[chǎng],臺|台[tái]

戏 (戯) 

xì

variant of 戲|戏[xì]

Most common words with 戏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

游戏

game

戏

trick

戏剧

drama

演戏

to perform

把戏

acrobatics

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 59.8590% of movies

587th most common character in movies

1033rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

戲

Unicode

U+620F


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