Chinese Character Wiki

揭

jiē

raise

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 曷 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

曷 sound component

曷  Sound component

hé

  

why? what? where?

Evolution

揭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
揭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

揭  

jiē

raise, lift up; surname; to take the lid off; to expose; to unmask

Most common words with 揭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

揭晓

to publish

揭露

to expose

揭开

to uncover

揭示

to show

揭

to expose

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[k]<r>at

gjet

jiē

lift, raise

*m-[k]at

gjot

jiē

lift

*[k]ʰ<r>at-s

khjejH

jiē

lift up one’s clothes

*[k]ʰ<r>at

khjet

jiē

lift

*[k]at

kjot

jiē

lift


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 14.9608% of movies

1613th most common character in movies

1666th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+63ED

Shuowen

“揭，高舉也。从手，曷聲。”


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