xīn
fragrant
Phonosemantic compound. 香 represents the meaning and 殸 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰˤeŋ | xeng | xīn | fragrance |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.7963% of movies
2720th most common character in movies
2586th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+99A8 |
Shuowen | “馨，香之遠聞者。从香、殸聲。殸，籀文磬。” |
Sources
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