xí
seat, mat
Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 庶 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 席
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
chairperson | ||
to attend | ||
chief (representative, correspondent etc) | ||
Chairman Mao | ||
seat |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-m-tAk | zjek | xí | mat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.9971% of movies
1246th most common character in movies
894th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5E2D |
Shuowen | “席，籍也。《禮》：‘天子、諸侯席，有黼繡純飾。’从巾，庶省。，古文席，从石省。” |
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