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holy

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

亚 sound component

  Sound component

  

Asia

Evolution

垩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
垩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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white earth; to daub with white mud; to whitewash; to plaster

Most common words with 垩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

白垩纪

Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)

白垩

chalk

to whitewash

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4608th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+57A9


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