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謝

xiè

thank

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 射 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

射 sound component

射  Sound component

shè

  

shoot

Evolution

謝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謝 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
謝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謝 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
謝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谢 (謝) 

xiè

thank; decline; to thank; to apologize; to wither (of flowers, leaves etc); to decline

谢 (謝) 

Xiè

surname Xie

Most common words with 謝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谢谢

to thank

感谢

gratitude

谢

to thank

多谢

many thanks

代谢

replacement

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə-lAk-s

zjaeH

xiè

decline, renounce


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.4142% of movies

69th most common character in movies

897th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

谢

Unicode

U+8B1D

Shuowen

“謝，辤去也。从言，聲。”


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