huá

slip, slide

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

骨 sound component

  Sound component

  

bone

Evolution

滑 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
滑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huá

slip, slide; slippery, polished; to slip; to slide; smooth; slippery; cunning

 

Huá

surname Hua

Most common words with 滑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to slip

下滑

sliding

滑雪

to ski

滑稽

comical

光滑

glossy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Nə-gˤrut

hweat

huá

slippery


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 27.2305% of movies

1172nd most common character in movies

1480th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6ED1

Shuowen

“滑,利也。从水,骨聲。”


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