xī
cricket
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 悉 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*srit | srit | xī | 蟋蟀 cricket |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3780th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+87CB |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“蟋，蟋也。从虫，悉聲。” |
Sources
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