xī
to separate
Depicts chopping wood (木) with an axe (斤).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 析
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to analyze | ||
to separate | ||
analyst | ||
analyst (e.g. of news) | ||
to analyze |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤek | sek | xī | split (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 16.0340% of movies
1574th most common character in movies
1073rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6790 |
Shuowen | “析,破木也。一曰折也。从木,从斤。” |
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