huì

confluence of rivers, exchange

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
匚 meaning component

  Meaning component

fāng

  

box

淮 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

huái

  

river in Anhui province

Evolution

匯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huì

a concourse; to flow together, gather together; (same as U+6ED9 ) to remit money; to remit; to converge (of rivers); to exchange

Most common words with 匯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

汇报

to report

to remit

百老汇

Broadway (New York City)

汇率

exchange rate

外汇

foreign (currency) exchange

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.9950% of movies

1595th most common character in movies

1187th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+532F

Shuowen

“匯,器也。从匚,淮聲。”


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