kuí
sunflower
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 癸 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 葵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sunflower (Helianthus annuus) | ||
sunflower | ||
sunflower | ||
sunflower seeds | ||
geranium (Pelargonium hortorum) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*gʷij | gjwij | kuí | mallow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2975% of movies
2838th most common character in movies
3580th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8475 |
Shuowen | “葵，菜也。从艸，癸聲。” |
Sources
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