Chinese Character Wiki

郤

xì

crack

Components
谷 meaning component

谷  Meaning component

gǔ

  

valley, ravine

valley

阝 sound component

阝  Sound component

fù

  

hill, place

Evolution

郤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
郤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

郤  

xì

crack, opening; surname; variant of 隙[xì]

郤  

Xì

surname Xi

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰrak

khjaek

xì

(place and family name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6656th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+90E4

Shuowen

“郤，晉大夫叔虎邑也。从邑，聲。”


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