bitter cold

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

妻 sound component

  Sound component

  

wife

Evolution

淒 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
淒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bitter cold, miserable, dreary

() 

intense cold; frigid; dismal; grim; bleak; sad; mournful

Most common words with 淒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凄凉

mournful

凄惨

plaintive

frigid

凄厉

mournful (sound)

凄然

distressed