low

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

place

㬎 sound component

  Sound component

xiǎn

  

visible, bright

Evolution

隰 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
隰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

low, damp land, marsh, swamp; low; marshy land

 

surname Xi

Most common words with 隰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

low

隰县

Xi county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lín​fén], Shanxi

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-N-qip

zip

low, wet ground


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6267th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+96B0

Shuowen

“隰,阪下溼也。从,聲。”


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