huì
conceal
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 韋 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
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 諱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
taboo | ||
to speak bluntly (idiom) | ||
to avoid | ||
to plead guilty | ||
to die |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3295% of movies
3341st most common character in movies
2912th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AF1 |
Shuowen | “諱,誋也。从言,韋聲。” |
Sources
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