qiè

weak

Components
走 meaning component

  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

walk

且 sound component

  Sound component

qiě

  

moreover

Evolution

趄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
趄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

weak, lame; to hesitate; to mark time

 

qiè

to recline

Most common words with 趄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

趔趄

to stagger

to hesitate

趑趄

to advance with difficulty

趑趄不前

hesitant and not daring to move forward (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4802nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8D84

Shuowen

“趄,趑趄也。从走,且聲。”


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