禋
yīn
offer sacrifice
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Definitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[q]i[n] | 'jin | yīn | sacrifice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7245th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+798B |
Shuowen | “禋，潔祀也。一曰精意以享為禋。从示，垔聲。，籀文从宀。” |
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