mài

blood vessels

Long  vessels through one's body ⺼

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

永 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǒng

  

long

Evolution

脉 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
脉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
脉 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
脉 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

mài

blood vessels, veins, arteries; arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

() 

see 脈脈|脉脉[mò​mò]

() 

mài

old variant of |[mài]

() 

mài

variant of |[mài]

Most common words with 脉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

动脉

artery

静脉

vein

arteries and veins

脉搏

pulse (both medical and figurative)

脉冲

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

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8109


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License