xiè

crab

Evolution

蠏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蠏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

xiè

crab, brachyura

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xiè

variant of [xiè]

Most common words with 蠏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

crab

螃蟹

crab

巨蟹座

Cancer (constellation and sign of the zodiac)

蟹肉

crab meat

寄居蟹

hermit 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+880F

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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