rely on

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

heart

古 sound component

  Sound component

  

old

Evolution

怙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
怙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

rely on, presume on; persist in; to rely on; father (formal)

Most common words with 怙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to rely on

怙恶不悛

to keep doing evil without a sense of repentance (idiom)

失怙

to be orphaned of one's father

怙恃

to rely on

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5675th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6019

Shuowen

“怙,恃也。从心,古聲。”


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