Chinese Character Wiki

罅

xià

crack

The sound 虖 of pottery 缶 breaking

Components
缶 meaning component

缶  Meaning component

fǒu

  

pottery

虖 meaning component

虖  Meaning component

hū

  

to cry

Evolution

罅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
罅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

罅  

xià

crack, fissure, split; crack; grudge

Most common words with 罅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

罅隙

gap

罅

crack

裂罅

rift

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4673rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+7F45

Shuowen

“罅，裂也。从缶，虖聲。缶燒善裂也。”


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