to ditch

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

血 sound component

  Sound component

xuè

  

blood

Evolution

洫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

to ditch; a moat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥(r)ik

xwik

channel; moat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6901st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D2B

Shuowen

“洫,十里為成,成間廣八尺,深八尺,謂之洫。从水,血聲。《論語》:‘盡力于溝洫。’”


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