huì

collect

Original meaning: 

hedgehog

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "hedgehog". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
㣇 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

a kind of beast with long hair

胃 sound,remnant component

  Sound Remnant component

wèi

  

stomach

Evolution

彙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
彙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
彙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huì

collect, compile, assemble; hedgehog; class; collection

Most common words with 彙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

汇报

to report

to remit

百老汇

Broadway (New York City)

汇率

exchange rate

外汇

foreign (currency) exchange

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.9950% of movies

1595th most common character in movies

1187th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+5F59

Shuowen

“,蟲似豪豬者。从,省聲。蝟,或从虫。”


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