xiá

cage

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

wood

甲 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎ

  

1st heavenly stem, fingernail

Evolution

柙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
柙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
柙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiá

cage, pen for wild animals; cage; pen; scabbard

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤr[a]p

haep

xiá

cage; box


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6150th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67D9

Shuowen

“柙,檻也,以藏虎兕。从木,柙說文古文,古文柙。甲聲。”


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