Chinese Character Wiki

悽

qī

sorrowful

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 妻 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

妻 sound component

妻  Sound component

qī, qì

  

wife

Evolution

悽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
悽 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
悽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

悽  

qī

sorrowful, grieved, melancholy

凄 (悽) 

qī

variant of 淒|凄[qī]; sad; mournful

Most common words with 悽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凄凉

mournful

凄惨

plaintive

凄

frigid

凄厉

mournful (sound)

凄然

distressed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5057% of movies

3175th most common character in movies

2352nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+60BD

Shuowen

“悽，痛也。从心，妻聲。”


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