hé, hè
lotus
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 何 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤaj | ha | hé | lotus |
*[g]ˤajʔ | haX | hè | carry |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.7754% of movies
1591st most common character in movies
1427th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8377 |
Shuowen | “荷,芙蕖葉。从艸,何聲。” |
Sources
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