èě

evil

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亞 sound component

  Sound component

  

Asia

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

惡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

è

evil, wicked, bad, foul; evil; fierce; vicious; ugly; coarse; to harm

() 

ě

see 惡心|恶心[ě​xīn]

() 

to hate; to loathe; ashamed; to fear; to slander

Most common words with 惡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恶心

nausea

邪恶

sinister

evil

恶魔

demon

恶化

to worsen

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔˤak

'ak

è

bad, ugly

*ʔˤak-s

'uH

hate (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 66.6026% of movies

533rd most common character in movies

792nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+60E1

Shuowen

“惡,過也。从心,亞聲。”


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