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侠

xiá

chivalrous person

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 夹 represents the sound. Simplified form of 俠.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

夹 sound component

夹  Sound component

jiā, jiá, jià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Evolution

侠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
侠 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
侠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
侠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

侠 (俠) 

xiá

chivalrous person; knight-errant; brave and chivalrous; hero; heroic

Most common words with 侠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

侠

hero

大侠

knight

武侠

knight-errant

游侠

knight-errant

武侠小说

a martial arts (wuxia) novel

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.8786% of movies

1847th most common character in movies

1216th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

俠

Unicode

U+4FA0


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