xiá
rosy clouds
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 霞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
red clouds | ||
sunset glow | ||
Brigitte Lin (1954-), Taiwanese actress | ||
multicolored sunlight of sunrise or sunset | ||
Xixia county level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2021st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+971E |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“霞,赤雲气也。从雨,叚聲。” |
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