still

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

叔 sound component

  Sound component

shū

  

uncle

Definitions

 

still, silent, quiet, desolate; silent; solitary; Taiwan pr. [jí]

Most common words with 寂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

寂寞

lonely

寂静

quiet

silent

沉寂

silence

孤寂

lonesome

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[d]ˤiwk

dzek

"quiet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.9129% of movies

2146th most common character in movies

1739th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5BC2


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