huī
wave, brandish
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Western Zhou (1045-771 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 揮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to display | ||
to conduct | ||
to wave | ||
commander | ||
to wave (one's hand) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷʰər | xjw+j | huī | wave, brandish |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 29.4089% of movies
1123rd most common character in movies
742nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+63EE |
Shuowen | “揮，奮也。从手，軍聲。” |
Sources
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