xīn
firewood
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 新 represents the sound. Originally written as 新.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 薪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
salary | ||
fuel | ||
annual salary | ||
monthly income (in kind) | ||
to raise salary |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]i[n] | sin | xīn | firewood |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 11.6931% of movies
1896th most common character in movies
2167th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+85AA |
Shuowen | “薪，蕘也。从艸，新聲。” |
Sources
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