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泄

xiè

leak

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 世 represents the sound. Simplified form of 洩.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

世 sound component

世  Sound component

shì

  

generation

Evolution

泄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泄  

xiè

leak; vent; flow; reveal; to leak (of water or gas); to drip; to drain; to discharge; to leak out; to divulge (secrets); to give vent (to anger, spite etc); to disperse; to reduce

泄 (洩) 

xiè

variant of 泄[xiè]

Most common words with 泄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

发泄

to give vent to (one's feelings)

泄露

to divulge

泄

to drip

泄漏

to leak

宣泄

to divulge

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-lat

sjet

xiè

leak, ooze

*lat-s

yejH

xiè

leak, ooze


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.6998% of movies

1648th most common character in movies

2010th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CC4

Shuowen

“泄，水。受九江博安洵波，北入氐。从水，世聲。”


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