xiān
wild onions or leeks
Phonosemantic compound. 㦰 represents the sound and 韭 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
8189th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+97F1 |
Shuowen | “韱，山韭也。从韭，聲。” |
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