lèi
class, kind
Phonosemantic compound. 犬 represents the meaning and 頪 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]u[t]-s | lwijH | lèi | category |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 62.9345% of movies
585th most common character in movies
311th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+985E |
Shuowen | “類，種類相似，唯犬為甚。从犬，頪聲。” |
Sources
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