gravel

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

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

乐 sound component

  Sound component

yuè

  

happy

Evolution

砾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
砾 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

gravel, pebbles, potsherds; gravel; small stone

Most common words with 砾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瓦砾

rubble

砾石

gravel

沙砾

grains of sand

gravel

砂砾

grit

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3511th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+783E


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