mài, mò
blood vessels
Vessels carry blood through one's body ⺼ like a branching river 𠂢
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 脈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
artery | ||
vein | ||
arteries and veins | ||
pulse (both medical and figurative) | ||
pulse (physics) |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˤ<r>[i]k | meak | mài | vein |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.2971% of movies
1585th most common character in movies
1594th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8108 |
Shuowen | “，血理分衺行體者，从从血。脈，或从肉。衇，籀文。” |
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