Chinese Character Wiki

胁

xié

ribs

Simplified form of 脅. Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 劦 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

力 simplified component

力  Simplified component

lì

  

power

Shorthand for the 劦 component in the traditional character 脅.

Evolution

胁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胁 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
胁 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

胁 (脅) 

xié

ribs; armpits; flank; threaten; flank (the side of one's torso); to coerce; to threaten

胁 (脇) 

xié

variant of 脅|胁[xié]

Most common words with 胁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

威胁

to threaten

胁迫

to coerce

胁

to coerce

胁持

to hold under duress

胁从犯

induced accomplice

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 29.3128% of movies

1210th most common character in movies

1494th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

脅

Unicode

U+80C1


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