xiè

idle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

解 sound component

  Sound component

jiěxièjiè

  

divide

Evolution

懈 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
懈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
懈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiè

idle, relaxed, remiss; lax; negligent

Most common words with 懈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

不懈

untiring

无懈可击

invulnerable

坚持不懈

to persevere unremittingly (idiom); to keep going until the end

松懈

to relax

懈怠

slack

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0434% of movies

2840th most common character in movies

2689th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+61C8

Shuowen

“懈,怠也。从心,解聲。”


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