Chinese Character Wiki
嗇

sè

stingy

Pictograph of wheat (麥) being stored in a granary (㐭). Based on the original meaning "harvest; hoard". The meaning later shifted to "stingy".

Components
麥 iconic,remnant component

麥  Iconic Remnant component

mài

  

wheat

㐭 iconic component

㐭  Iconic component

lǐn

  

granary

Evolution

嗇 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
嗇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

啬 (嗇) 

sè

miserly, thrifty, stingy; stopped up, constipated; stingy

Most common words with 嗇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吝啬

stingy

吝啬鬼

miser

啬

stingy

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

墻 薔 穡

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

牆

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.rək

srik

sè

reap


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3295% of movies

3318th most common character in movies

3860th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

啬

Unicode

U+55C7

Shuowen

“嗇，愛濇也。从來，从。來者而藏之，故田夫謂之嗇夫。，古文嗇从田。”


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