xiè
leak
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 世 represents the sound. Simplified form of 洩.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 泄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to give vent to (one's feelings) | ||
to divulge | ||
to drip | ||
to leak | ||
to divulge |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-lat | sjet | xiè | leak, ooze |
*lat-s | yejH | xiè | leak, ooze |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.6998% of movies
1648th most common character in movies
2010th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CC4 |
Shuowen | “泄,水。受九江博安洵波,北入氐。从水,世聲。” |
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