Chinese Character Wiki

薛

xuē

kind of marsh grass

A kind of bitter 辛 grass 艹

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

丿 meaning component

丿  Meaning component

piě

  

line

㠯 meaning component

㠯  Meaning component

yǐ

  

by means of

辛 meaning component

辛  Meaning component

xīn

  

laborious

Evolution

薛 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

薛  

xuē

kind of marsh grass; feudal state; wormwood like grass (classical)

薛  

Xuē

surname Xue; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC)

Most common words with 薛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

薛

surname Xue

薛宝钗

Xue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉

薛仁贵

Xue Rengui (614-683) great Tang dynasty general

薛福成

Xue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist

薛城

Xuecheng district of Zaozhuang city 棗莊市|枣庄市[Zǎo​zhuāng​shì], Shandong

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

孽 蘖

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.ŋat

sjet

xuē

spec. of plant

*s.ŋat

sjet

xuē

(place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.5446% of movies

3072nd most common character in movies

1953rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+859B

Shuowen

“，艸也。从艸，辥聲。”


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