è
holy
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 亞 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 堊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago) | ||
chalk | ||
to whitewash |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤak | 'ak | è | plaster (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4608th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+580A |
Shuowen | “堊，白涂也。从土，亞聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
