xiá

flaw in gem

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

叚 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎ

  

false

Evolution

瑕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瑕 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
瑕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiá

flaw in gem; fault, defect; blemish; flaw in jade

Most common words with 瑕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瑕疵

blemish

无瑕

faultless

blemish

完美无瑕

flawless

瑕不掩瑜

the pros outweigh the cons (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤra

hae

xiá

flaw, blemish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3546% of movies

2912th most common character in movies

3842nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7455

Shuowen

“瑕,玉小赤也。从玉,叚聲。”


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