kě
thirsty
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 曷 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 渴
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to thirst for | ||
thirsty | ||
hungry and thirsty | ||
thirsty | ||
to long for |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Nə-[k]ʰˤat | khat | kě | thirsty |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 18.5167% of movies
1643rd most common character in movies
1972nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6E34 |
Shuowen | “渴，盡也。从水，曷聲。” |
Sources
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