xìn
consecrate sacrificial vessels by smearing blood
Phonosemantic compound. 血 represents the meaning and 半 represents the sound. Simplified form of 釁.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 衅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to provoke | ||
quarrel | ||
to pick a quarrel | ||
border conflict | ||
to look for the Achilles' heel |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m̥rər-s | xinH | xìn | smear with blood |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3707% of movies
2929th most common character in movies
3146th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8845 |
Sources
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