Chinese Character Wiki
褱

huái

to carry in the bosom or the sleeve

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 眔 represents the sound.

Components
衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

眔 sound component

眔  Sound component

dà

  

reach to

Evolution

褱 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
褱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
褱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

褱  

huái

to carry in the bosom or the sleeve; to wrap, to conceal

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

懷 壞

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7936th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8931

Shuowen

“褱，俠也。从衣，眔聲。一曰橐。”


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