mountain stream

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of 谿.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

奚 sound component

  Sound component

  

where? what? how? why?

Evolution

溪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
溪 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
溪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mountain stream, creek; creek; rivulet

(谿) 

variant of [xī]

Most common words with 溪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

creek

小溪

brook

溪流

stream

安溪

Anxi county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quán​zhōu], Fujian

慈溪

Cixi county level city in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Níng​bō], Zhejiang