xiè
slight
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-ŋet | sjet | xiè | garment next to the body |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.9244% of movies
2609th most common character in movies
3495th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+893B |
Shuowen | “褻,私服。从衣,埶聲。《詩》曰:‘是褻袢也。’” |
Sources
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