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腊

xī, là

dried meat

A sacrifice of meat ⺼ for the past year 昔

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

昔 meaning component

昔  Meaning component

xī

  

in the past, ancient times

Evolution

腊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
腊 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
腊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
腊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

腊  

xī

dried meat; also pr. [xí]

腊 (臘) 

là

year end sacrifice; 12th lunar month; preserved (meat, fish etc)

腊 (臈) 

là

old variant of 臘|腊[là]

Most common words with 腊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

希腊

Greece

腊

dried meat

腊肠

sausage

腊月

twelfth lunar month

古希腊

ancient Greece

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.3042% of movies

1941st most common character in movies

1497th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

臘

Unicode

U+814A

Shuowen

“昔，乾肉也。从殘肉，日以晞之，與俎同意。腊，籀文从肉。”


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