lèi
class
Simplified form of 類. Phonosemantic compound. 犬 represents the meaning and 頪 represents the sound.
Components
大 Simplified component
dà, dài
big
Shorthand for 犬, the meaning component in the traditional character 頪.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 62.9345% of movies
585th most common character in movies
311th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7C7B |
Sources
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