chǐ
luxurious
A person 亻 with more than they need 多
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 侈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
luxurious | ||
luxury good | ||
wasteful | ||
to prate | ||
extravagant in the extreme (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t-l̥ajʔ | tsyheX | chǐ | extravagant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.4828% of movies
2935th most common character in movies
3081st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F88 |
Shuowen | “侈，掩脅也。从人，多聲。一曰奢也。” |
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