xìng

fortunate

Fortune () is the opposite () of misfortune ().

Components
夭 meaning component

  Meaning component

yāo

  

die young

屰 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

disobedient

Evolution

幸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xìng

luck(ily), favor, fortunately; fortunate; lucky

 

Xìng

surname Xing

() 

xìng

trusted; intimate; (of the emperor) to visit; variant of [xìng]

Most common words with 幸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

幸福

happiness

幸运

fortunate

不幸

misfortune

荣幸

honored (to have the privilege of ...)

trusted

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤreŋʔ

heangX

xìng

fortunate


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 73.9548% of movies

515th most common character in movies

902nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5E78

Shuowen

“,吉而免凶也。从屰,从夭。夭死之事,故死謂之不。”


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