kuì
straw basket
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 貴 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ruj-s | gwijH | kuì | basket |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7710th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8562 |
Shuowen | “蕢，艸器也。从艸，貴聲。臾，古文蕢。象形。《論語》曰：‘有荷臾而過孔氏之門。’” |
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