weed

Evolution

薙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

weed; shave

() 

to weed

Most common words with 薙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

shave

剃刀

razor

剃须刀

shaver

剃头

to have one's head shaved

剃度

to take the tonsure

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤij-s

thejH

clear weeds


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.2127% of movies

2473rd most common character in movies

3289th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8599

Shuowen

“薙,除艸也。《明堂月令》曰:‘季夏燒薙。’从艸,雉聲。”


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