Chinese Character Wiki

陜

xiá

narrow

The space between 夾 two hills 阝; 夾 also provides the pronunciation

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

夾 sound,meaning component

夾  Sound Meaning component

jiā, jiá, jià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Evolution

陜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
陜 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
陜 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
陜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

陜  

xiá

narrow; mountain pass; variant of 狹|狭 narrow; variant of 峽|峡 gorge; used erroneously for 陝|陕 Shaanxi

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8709th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+965C

Shuowen

“陝，隘也。从，夾聲。”


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