xué
cave
Depicts a cave opening.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤi[t] | hwet | xué | cave, pit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.1509% of movies
2152nd most common character in movies
1940th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+7A74 |
Shuowen | “穴,土室也。从宀,八聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.605
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