溪 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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xī

mountain stream

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 奚 represents the sound. Simplified form of 谿.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

奚 Sound component

xī

where? what? how? why?

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

溪

xī

mountain stream, creek; creek; rivulet

溪 (谿)

xī

variant of 溪[xī]

Most common words with 溪

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	溪	creek
	小溪	brook
	溪流	stream
	安溪	Anxi county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quánzhōu], Fujian
	慈溪	Cixi county level city in Ningbo 寧波\|宁波[Níngbō], Zhejiang

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*kʰˤe	khej	xī	valley with stream in it

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6910% of movies

2619th most common character in movies

2194th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	13
Unicode	U+6EAA
Shuowen	“谿，山瀆無所通者。从谷，奚聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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