desert

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

莫 sound component

  Sound component

  

do not

Evolution

漠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

desert; aloof, indifferent, cool; unconcerned

Most common words with 漠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沙漠

desert

冷漠

lack of regard

漠视

to ignore

漠不关心

not the least bit concerned

荒漠

barren

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 9.7549% of movies

1938th most common character in movies

1777th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6F20

Shuowen

“漠,北方流沙也。一曰清也。从水,莫聲。”


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