huái

river in Anhui province

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

隹 sound component

  Sound component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

淮 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
淮 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
淮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huái

river in Anhui province

 

Huái

name of a river

Most common words with 淮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

name of a river

淮河

Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huáng​Hé] and the Changjiang 長江|长江[Cháng​Jiāng]

淮南

Huainan prefecture-level city in Anhui

淮安

Huai'an prefecture-level city in Jiangsu

淮海

Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州[Xú​zhōu], including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤrij

hweaj

huái

(name of a river)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2293rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DEE

Shuowen

“淮,水。出南陽平氏桐柏大復山,東南入海。从水,隹聲。”


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