暇 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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xiá

leisure

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

叚 Sound component

jiǎ

false

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xiá

leisure, relaxation, spare time; leisure

Most common words with 暇

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	无暇	too busy
	闲暇	leisure
	暇	leisure
	应接不暇	more than one can attend to (idiom)
	目不暇接	lit. too much for the eye to take in (idiom); a feast for the eyes

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[g]ˤra-s	haeH	xià	leisure

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.8901% of movies

3148th most common character in movies

2761st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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