Chinese Character Wiki

恤

xù

show pity

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 血 represents the sound. Simplified form of 卹.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

血 sound component

血  Sound component

xuè

  

blood

Evolution

恤 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
恤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
恤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
恤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

恤  

xù

show pity; relieve, help; anxiety; sympathy; to sympathize; to give relief; to compensate

恤 (䘏) 

xù

variant of 恤[xù]

Most common words with 恤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恤

anxiety

恤衫

shirt (loanword)

抚恤金

relief payment

体恤

to empathize with

抚恤

(of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[m]i[t]

swit

xù

anxiety


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.2951% of movies

2266th most common character in movies

3214th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6064

Shuowen

“恤，憂也；收也。从心，血聲。”


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