kuì
flooding river
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 貴 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[gʷ]ˤ[ə]j-s | hwojH | kuì | break through an embankment (of water) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.8624% of movies
1904th most common character in movies
1916th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6F70 |
Shuowen | “潰,漏也。从水,貴聲。” |
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