huī

wave, brandish

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

軍 sound component

  Sound component

jūn

  

army

Evolution

揮 Bronze script Western Zhou (1045-771 BC)

Bronze script

Western Zhou (1045-771 BC)
揮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
揮 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
揮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huī

direct; wipe away; squander; to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse

Most common words with 揮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

发挥

to display

指挥

to conduct

to wave

指挥官

commander

挥手

to wave (one's hand)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰər

xjw+j

huī

wave, brandish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 29.4089% of movies

1123rd most common character in movies

742nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+63EE

Shuowen

“揮,奮也。从手,軍聲。”


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