mài

blood vessels

Evolution

衇 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

mài

blood vessels, veins, arteries

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mài

variant of |[mài]

Most common words with 衇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

动脉

artery

静脉

vein

arteries and veins

脉搏

pulse (both medical and figurative)

脉冲

pulse (physics)

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

12

Unicode

U+8847

Shuowen

“,血理分衺行體者,从从血。脈,或从肉。衇,籀文。”


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