bright

Duplicate of , a bright red color.

Components
赤 meaning component

  Meaning component

chì

  

red

赤 meaning component

  Meaning component

chì

  

red

Evolution

赫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bright, radiant, glowing; awe-inspiring; abbr. for 赫茲|赫兹[hè​zī], hertz (Hz)

 

surname He

Most common words with 赫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

awe-inspiring

赫尔

Hull (name)

舒马赫

Michael Schumacher (1969-), former German racing driver

赫鲁晓夫

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964

赫然

with a shock

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤrak

xaek

red, fiery


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.6566% of movies

1602nd most common character in movies

1346th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8D6B

Shuowen

“赫,火赤皃。从二赤。”


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