xìng

a water plant

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莕 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

xìng

a water plant, Nymphoides peltalum; Nymphoides peltatum

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9901st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8395

Shuowen

“莕,菨餘也。从艸,杏聲。荇,莕或从行同。”


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