xiǎng

to receive

Original meaning: 

temple

Variant of . Originally a pictograph of a temple or a shrine. The meaning later shifted to "food offering" and "enjoy".

Evolution

亯 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
亯 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
亯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

xiǎng

to receive; to enjoy

() 

xiǎng

old variant of [xiǎng]

Most common words with 亯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

享受

to enjoy

分享

to share (let others have some of sth good)

共享

to share

to enjoy

享有

to enjoy (rights, privileges etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 46.3559% of movies

939th most common character in movies

1227th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4EAF

Shuowen

“亯,獻也。从高省。曰:象進孰物形。《孝經》曰:‘祭則鬼亯之。’享,篆文亯。”


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