xī
the gloom of the grave a tomb or grave
A dark 夕 cave 穴; 夕 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5943rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+7A78 |
Shuowen | “穸,窀穸也。从穴,夕聲。” |
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