shè

to suck

Components
翕 sound component

  Sound component

  

agree

欠 meaning component

  Meaning component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

breathe

Evolution

歙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
歙 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
歙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shè

to suck; a county's name in anhui; name of a district in Anhui

Most common words with 歙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

歙县

She county in Huangshan 黃山|黄山[Huáng​shān], Anhui

name of a district in Anhui

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ(r)[ə]p

xip

contract (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4946th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+6B59

Shuowen

“歙,縮鼻也。从欠,翕聲。丹陽有歙縣。”


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