duì

exchange

Original meaning: 

joyous

Simplified form of . Depicts words () coming out of a person's () mouth ().

Components
八 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

eight

Represents words coming out of the mouth.

口 iconic component

  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

人 iconic component

  Iconic component

rén

  

person

Evolution

兑 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
兑 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
兑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
兑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
兑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

duì

cash; exchange, barter; weight; to cash; to exchange; to add (liquid); to blend; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā​guà], symbolizing swamp; ☱

() 

Duì

surname Dui

Most common words with 兑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

兑现

(of a check etc) to cash

to cash

兑换

to convert

兑付

to cash (a check)

汇兑

remittance

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 7 characters (5 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤot-s

dwajH

duì

passage; opening

*lˤot-s

dwajH

duì

glad


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.5651% of movies

2528th most common character in movies

2424th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+5151


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