xiè

unexpected meeting

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

解 sound component

  Sound component

jiěxièjiè

  

divide

Evolution

邂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiè

unexpected meeting; encounter by; to meet unexpectedly

Most common words with 邂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

邂逅

to meet by chance

to meet unexpectedly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤre-s

heaH

xiè

邂逅 xièhòu carefree ((Odes 94.1–2, 118.2)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4605th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9082

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“邂,邂逅,不期而遇也。从辵,解聲。”


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