Chinese Character Wiki

隙

xì

crack

A crack 日 dividing two things 小; 阝 provides the pronunciation

Components
阝 sound component

阝  Sound component

fù

  

hill, place

小 meaning component

小  Meaning component

xiǎo

  

small

日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

小 meaning component

小  Meaning component

xiǎo

  

small

Evolution

隙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

隙  

xì

crack, split, fissure; grudge; crack; crevice; gap or interval; loophole; discord; rift

Most common words with 隙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

间隙

gap

缝隙

chink

空隙

crack

隙

crack

裂隙

gap

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰrak

khjaek

xì

crack (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2265% of movies

2980th most common character in movies

2419th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+9699

Shuowen

“隙，壁際孔也。从，从，亦聲。”


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