gài
water
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 既 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤə[t]-s | kojH | gài | to wash |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3524th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6E89 |
Shuowen | “溉,水。出東海桑瀆覆甑山,東北入海。一曰灌注也。从水,既聲。” |
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