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漆

qī

varnish

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 桼 represents the sound. Originally written as 桼, which depicts lacquer or sap oozing out from a varnish tree (木).

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

桼 sound,meaning component

桼  Sound Meaning component

qī

  

varnish tree, lacquer

Evolution

漆 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
漆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

漆  

qī

varnish, lacquer, paint; paint; lacquer; CL:道[dào]; to paint (furniture, walls etc)

Most common words with 漆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

漆

paint

油漆

oil paints

漆黑

pitch-black

喷漆

lacquer

漆器

lacquerware

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]i[t]

tshit

qī

varnish tree


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.5124% of movies

2131st most common character in movies

2296th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6F06

Shuowen

“漆，水。出右扶風杜陵岐山，東入渭。一曰入洛。从水，桼聲。”


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