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淒

qī

bitter cold

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

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

妻 sound component

妻  Sound component

qī, qì

  

wife

Evolution

淒 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
淒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

淒  

qī

bitter cold, miserable, dreary

凄 (淒) 

qī

intense cold; frigid; dismal; grim; bleak; sad; mournful

Most common words with 淒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凄凉

mournful

凄惨

plaintive

凄

frigid

凄厉

mournful (sound)

凄然

distressed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5057% of movies

3175th most common character in movies

2352nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DD2

Shuowen

“淒，雲雨起也。从水，妻聲。《詩》曰：‘有渰淒淒。’”


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