Chinese Character Wiki
亥

hài

12th terrestrial branch

Original meaning: 

roots

Depicts roots of a plant. Based on the original meaning "roots", now written as 荄. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

亥 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
亥 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
亥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
亥 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
亥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

亥  

hài

12th terrestrial branch; 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar; ancient Chinese compass point: 330°

Most common words with 亥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

俄亥俄州

Ohio

俄亥俄

Ohio

辛亥革命

Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty

亥

ancient Chinese compass point: 330°

辛亥

cf 辛亥革命[Xīn​hài​Gé​mìng], Xinhai Revolution of 1911

Component uses

Sound component in 21 characters (7 verified)

該 该 孩 刻 核 咳 荄 駭 骇 骸 劾 氦 閡 阂 颏 頦 賅 赅 垓 陔 胲

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

荄

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤəʔ

hojX

hài

12th earthly branch


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1624% of movies

2829th most common character in movies

3179th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4EA5

Shuowen

“亥，荄也。十月微陽起，接盛陰。从，，古文上字，一人男，一人女也。从乙，象褢子咳咳之形。《春秋傳》曰：‘亥有二首六身’。 ，古文。亥為豕，與豕同。亥而生子，復從一起。”


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