xī
rare
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 希 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.3293% of movies
2217th most common character in movies
1788th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7A00 |
Shuowen | “稀，疏也。从禾，希聲。” |
Sources
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