xǐ
imperial signet
Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 爾 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.[n]e[r]ʔ | sjeX | xǐ | seal (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.0641% of movies
3284th most common character in movies
3758th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+74BD |
Shuowen | “壐，王者印也，所以主土。从土，爾聲。璽，籀文从玉。” |
Sources
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