xì
play
Original meaning:
military troops outside the main group
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".
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋ̊(r)ar-s | xjeH | xì | sport, joke |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 59.8590% of movies
587th most common character in movies
1033rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6232 |
Shuowen | “戲,三軍之偏也。一曰兵也。从戈,聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

