lài
swift current
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 賴 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.rˤa[t]-s | lajH | lài | rapids |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.3043% of movies
3278th most common character in movies
4161st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7028 |
Shuowen | “瀨,水流沙上也。从水,賴聲。” |
Sources
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