Chinese Character Wiki
褐

hè

coarse woolen cloth

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 曷 represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

衤  Meaning component

yī

  

clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

曷 sound component

曷  Sound component

hé

  

why? what? where?

Evolution

褐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
褐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
褐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

褐  

hè

coarse woolen cloth; dull, dark; brown; gray or dark color; coarse hemp cloth; Taiwan pr. [hé]

Most common words with 褐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

褐色

brown

褐

brown

黄褐色

tan (color)

黄褐斑

chloasma

褐煤

lignite

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤat

hat

hè

coarse cloth


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.9954% of movies

2753rd most common character in movies

2654th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8910

Shuowen

“褐，編枲韤。一曰粗衣。从衣，曷聲。”


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