垩 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

holy

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 亚 represents the sound. Simplified form of 堊.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ

earth

亚 Sound component

yà

Asia

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

white earth; to daub with white mud; to whitewash; to plaster

Most common words with 垩

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	白垩纪	Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
	白垩	chalk
	垩	to whitewash

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4608th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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