lài

swift current

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

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

赖 sound component

  Sound component

lài

  

depend on

Evolution

濑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
濑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
濑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lài

swift current; rapids; name of a river; rushing of water

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.3043% of movies

3278th most common character in movies

4161st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Traditional

Unicode

U+6FD1


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