abdominal area of crab

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

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

齐 sound component

  Sound component

  

even

Evolution

脐 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
脐 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
脐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
脐 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
脐 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

abdominal area of crab; navel

Most common words with 脐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

navel

脐带

umbilical cord

肚脐

navel

脐橙

navel orange

肚脐眼

navel

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.7299% of movies

2971st most common character in movies

3830th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+8110


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