hé
what? why not?
Original meaning:
lid
Pictograph of a lid (去) on top of a container (皿). Based on the original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-[k]ˤap | hap | hé | thatch, cover (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5625th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+76CD |
Shuowen | “,覆也。从血、大。” |
Sources
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