xié
ribs
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 劦 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 脅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to threaten | ||
to coerce | ||
to coerce | ||
to hold under duress | ||
induced accomplice |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰ<r>ep | xjaep | xié | flank, side of the body |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 29.3128% of movies
1210th most common character in movies
1494th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8105 |
Shuowen | “脅，兩也。从肉，劦聲。” |
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