Chinese Character Wiki
碬

xiá

whetstone

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

石  Meaning component

shí, dàn

  

stone

叚 sound component

叚  Sound component

jiǎ

  

false

Evolution

碬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
碬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

碬  

xiá

whetstone

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+78AC

Shuowen

“碬，厲石也，从石叚聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘鄭公孫碬，字子石。’”


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