sè
farm
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 嗇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.rək | srik | sè | reap |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4068th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7A61 |
Shuowen | “穡,穀可收曰穡。从禾,嗇聲。” |
Sources
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