xìn
fontanel
Depicts the gap between the bones in an infant skull.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 囟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull) | ||
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull) |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ə[r]-s | sinH | xìn | fontanel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5175th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+56DF |
Shuowen | “囟,頭會匘蓋也。象形。,或从肉、宰。,古文囟字。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.785
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