xì
gift of grain
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 氣 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰ(r)ə[t]-s | xj+jH | xì | gift of animals or grain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5163rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+993C |
Shuowen | “氣，饋客芻米也。从米，气聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘齊人來氣諸矦。’，氣或从既；餼，氣或从食。” |
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