kǎi

high and dry place

Evolution

塏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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kǎi

high and dry place; dry terrain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʰˤəjʔ

khojX

kǎi

high and dry (place)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9025th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+584F

Shuowen

“塏,高燥也。从土,豈聲。”


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