Chinese Character Wiki

谿

xī

valley

Phonosemantic compound. 谷 represents the meaning and 奚 represents the sound.

Components
谷 meaning component

谷  Meaning component

gǔ

  

valley, ravine

奚 sound component

奚  Sound component

xī

  

where? what? how? why?

Evolution

谿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
谿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谿  

xī

valley, gorge; mountain stream

溪 (谿) 

xī

variant of 溪[xī]

Most common words with 谿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

溪

creek

小溪

brook

溪流

stream

安溪

Anxi county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quán​zhōu], Fujian

慈溪

Cixi county level city in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Níng​bō], Zhejiang

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤe

khej

xī

valley with stream in it


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6910% of movies

2619th most common character in movies

2194th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+8C3F

Shuowen

“谿，山瀆無所通者。从谷，奚聲。”


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