xié
harmonize
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 皆 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 諧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
harmonious | ||
homonym | ||
harmonious | ||
humorous | ||
harmonic (wave with frequency an integer multiple of the fundamental) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.4942% of movies
2462nd most common character in movies
2416th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AE7 |
Shuowen | “諧,詥也。从言,皆聲。” |
Sources
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