xǔ
boast
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 羽 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3861st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A61 |
Shuowen | “詡,大言也。从言,羽聲。” |
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