do evil in secret

To hide  evil in one's heart 

Components
匿 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hide

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

慝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
慝 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
慝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

do evil in secret; evil, vice; evil thought

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n̥ˤək

thok

evil


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6523rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+615D


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