huì

general term for plants

Depicts a group of plants (, ). Originally written as (, ) resulting in its erroneous replacement of the once visually similar but unrelated form of (run) within some characters.

Components
屮 iconic component

  Iconic component

chè

  

sprout

艹 iconic component

  Iconic component

caocǎo

  

grass

Evolution

卉 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
卉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
卉 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
卉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huì

general term for plants; myriads; plants

Most common words with 卉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

花卉

flowers and plants

plants

奇花异卉

exotic flowers and rare herbs (idiom)

奇葩异卉

rare and exotic flora (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r̥]u[j]ʔ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-)

xjw+jX

xjw+jH

huì


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3341st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+5349

Shuowen

“卉,艸之總名也。从艸、屮。”


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