鞋 - Dong Chinese dictionary

xié

shoes

Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.

Components

革 Meaning component

gé

leather

圭 Sound component

guī

jade pointed at top

鞋 and 圭 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.鞋 /*[g]ˤre (no pre-Qín exx.)/
圭 /*[k]ʷˤe/

Definitions

鞋

xié

shoes, footwear in general; shoe; CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]

鞋 (鞵)

xié

variant of 鞋[xié]

Most common words with 鞋

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	鞋	shoe
	鞋子	shoe
	高跟鞋	high-heeled shoes
	拖鞋	slippers
	皮鞋	leather shoes

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[g]ˤre (no pre-Qín exx.)	hea	xié	shoe

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 31.3631% of movies

989th most common character in movies

1638th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+978B

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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