ǎi
short
Phonosemantic compound. 矢 represents the meaning and 委 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 7.6566% of movies
2015th most common character in movies
2027th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+77EE |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“矮,短人也。从矢,委聲。” |
Sources
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