mái
misty
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 貍 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤrə | meaj | mái | whirlwind |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4319th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Unicode | U+973E |
Shuowen | “霾，風雨土也。从雨，貍聲。《詩》曰：‘終風且霾。’” |
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