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holy

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

亞 sound component

  Sound component

  

Asia

Evolution

堊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
堊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

è

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

Most common words with 堊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

白垩纪

Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)

白垩

chalk

to whitewash

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔˤak

'ak

è

plaster (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4608th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+580A

Shuowen

“堊,白涂也。从土,亞聲。”


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