lài
bamboo flute
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 賴 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 籟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sounds of nature | ||
not a sound to be heard (idiom) | ||
a sound | ||
dead silent |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*rˤa[t]-s | lajH | lài | tube |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4150th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7C5F |
Shuowen | “籟，三孔龠也。大者謂之笙，其中謂之籟，小者謂之葯。从竹，賴聲。” |
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