xiè
crab
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 解 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蠏.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 蟹
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
crab | ||
crab | ||
Cancer (constellation and sign of the zodiac) | ||
crab meat | ||
hermit crab |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kˤreʔ | heaX | xiè | crab |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.8672% of movies
2537th most common character in movies
3049th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+87F9 |
Shuowen | “蠏，有二敖八足，旁行，非蛇鮮之穴無所態。从虫，解聲。” |
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