Chinese Character Wiki

液

yè

sap

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 夜 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

夜 sound component

夜  Sound component

yè

  

night

Evolution

液 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
液 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
液 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

液  

yè

sap, juice, liquid, fluid; liquid; fluid; Taiwan pr. [yì]

Most common words with 液
Freq.
Word
Meaning

血液

blood

液

liquid

液晶

liquid crystal

液体

liquid

精液

semen

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ɢrAk

yek

yè

fluid


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 22.1688% of movies

1287th most common character in movies

1451st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DB2

Shuowen

“液，也。从水，夜聲。”


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