guì

Chinese cypress

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

会 sound component

  Sound component

huìkuài

  

to gather

Evolution

桧 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
桧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
桧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
桧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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guì

Chinese cypress, Chinese juniper; Chinese Juniper (Juniperus chinensis); coffin lid decoration (old)

Most common words with 桧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

coffin lid decoration (old)

秦桧

Qin Hui (1090-1155 AD), Song Dynasty official said to have betrayed General Yue Fei 岳飛|岳飞[Yuè​Fēi]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4101st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+6867


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