xīng
raw meat
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 星 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 腥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
reeking of blood | ||
fishy (smell) | ||
Houttuynia cordata | ||
carnage | ||
meat and fish |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1006% of movies
2549th most common character in movies
2747th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+8165 |
Shuowen | “腥，星見食豕，令肉中生小息肉也。从肉，从星，星亦聲。” |
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