cè
feel anguish
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 则 represents the sound. Simplified form of 惻.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 恻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sorrowful | ||
compassion | ||
very sentimental | ||
compassion | ||
heartbroken |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3896th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+607B |
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