Chinese Character Wiki

擷

xié

pick up

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

hand

頡 sound component

頡  Sound component

xié, jié

  

fly upward

Evolution

擷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

撷 (擷) 

xié

pick up, gather up; hold in lap; to collect; Taiwan pr. [jié]

Most common words with 擷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

撷取

to pick

撷

to collect

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[k]ˤi[t]

het

xié

tuck in skirts (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4717th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

撷

Unicode

U+64F7

Shuowen

“襭，以衣衽扱物謂之襭。从衣，頡聲。擷，襭或从手。”


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