Chinese Character Wiki

㫺

xī

(same as 昔) bygone

Evolution

㫺 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
㫺 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
㫺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㫺 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

㫺  

(same as 昔) bygone; of old; formerly; ancient, at night, the end

㫺  

xī

old variant of 昔[xī]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+3AFA

Shuowen

“昔，乾肉也。从殘肉，日以晞之，與俎同意。腊，籀文从肉。”


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