huī, huǐ
large poisonous snake
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r̥]ˤu[j] (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-) | xwoj | huī | exhausted, weary |
*[r̥]u[j]ʔ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-) | xjw+jX | huǐ | snake-brood |
*r̥u[j]ʔ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-) | xjw+jX | huǐ | sound of thunder |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5543rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+867A |
Shuowen | “虺，虺以注（咮）鳴。《詩》曰：‘胡為虺蜥。’以虫，兀聲。” |
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