ǎi
lush
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 謁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤa[t]-s | 'ajH | ǎi | ample, numerous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.7460% of movies
3111th most common character in movies
3460th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+85F9 |
Shuowen | “藹，臣盡力之美，从言葛聲。《詩》曰：‘譪譪王多吉士。’” |
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