hide

Components
匸 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

box

box

若 sound component

  Sound component

ruò

  

if

Evolution

匿 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
匿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hide; go into hiding; to hide

Most common words with 匿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

匿名

anonymous

藏匿

to cover up

隐匿

to cover up

销声匿迹

to lie low

to hide

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nr[ə]k

nrik

conceal


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.1280% of movies

2248th most common character in movies

2804th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+533F

Shuowen

“匿,亡也。从匸,若聲,讀如羊騶箠。”


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