shà

smear one's mouth with blood of a victim when taking an oath

Components
臿 sound component

  Sound component

chā

  

to separate the grain from the husk

欠 meaning component

  Meaning component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

breathe

Evolution

歃 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
歃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
歃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shà

smear one's mouth with blood of a victim when taking an oath; to drink

Most common words with 歃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

歃血为盟

to swear a sacred oath

to drink

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s](ˤ)r[o]p

sreap

shà

smear mouth with victim's blood

*[s]r[o]p

srjep

shà

smear mouth with blood


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6211th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6B43

Shuowen

“歃,歠也。从欠,臿聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘歃而忘。’”


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