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谢

xiè

thank

Simplified form of 謝. Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 射 represents the sound.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

射 sound component

射  Sound component

shè

  

shoot

Evolution

谢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
谢 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
谢 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谢 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

谢 (謝) 

xiè

thank; decline; to thank; to apologize; to wither (of flowers, leaves etc); to decline

谢 (謝) 

Xiè

surname Xie

Most common words with 谢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谢谢

to thank

感谢

gratitude

谢

to thank

多谢

many thanks

代谢

replacement

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 98.4142% of movies

69th most common character in movies

897th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

謝

Unicode

U+8C22


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