xǐ
wash
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 先 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤərʔ | sejX | xǐ | wash |
*sˤərʔ | senX | xiǎn | wash |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 53.3878% of movies
727th most common character in movies
1247th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6D17 |
Shuowen | “洗,洒足也。从水,先聲。” |
Sources
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