yè
armpit
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 夜 represents the sound. Originally written as 亦.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)Ak | yek | yè | armpit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3593rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+814B |
Sources
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