荷 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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hé, hè

lotus

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 何 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

何 Sound component

hé

what

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

荷

hé

lotus, water lily, holland; lotus

荷

Hé

Holland; the Netherlands; abbr. for 荷蘭|荷兰[Hélán]

荷

hè

to carry on one's shoulder or back; burden; responsibility

Most common words with 荷

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	荷兰	Holland
	荷	lotus
	薄荷	field mint
	负荷	load
	荷尔蒙	hormone (loanword)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

嗬

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[g]ˤaj	ha	hé	lotus
*[g]ˤajʔ	haX	hè	carry

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.7754% of movies

1591st most common character in movies

1427th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+8377
Shuowen	“荷，芙蕖葉。从艸，何聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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