hè
congratulate
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 賀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to congratulate | ||
to congratulate | ||
greeting card | ||
to pay a New Year's visit | ||
to congratulate |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kˤaj-s | haH | hè | congratulate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.9241% of movies
1476th most common character in movies
1690th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CC0 |
Shuowen | “賀，以禮相奉慶也。从貝，加聲。” |
Sources
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