imperial signet

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

Components
玉 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

jade

尔 sound component

  Sound component

ěr

  

you

Evolution

玺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
玺 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
玺 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

imperial signet, royal signet; ruler's seal

Most common words with 玺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

ruler's seal

国玺

seal of state

印玺

official seal

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.0641% of movies

3284th most common character in movies

3758th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+73BA


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