huái
ankle
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 果 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kˤ<r>o[r]ʔ | hwaeX | huà | ankle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.6040% of movies
2605th most common character in movies
3893rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8E1D |
Shuowen | “踝，足踝也。从足，果聲。” |
Sources
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