one's deceased father

Components
礻 meaning component

  Meaning component

shì

  

show

spirit

爾 sound component

  Sound component

ěr

  

you

Evolution

禰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
禰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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one's deceased father; memorial tablet in a temple commemorating a deceased father

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surname Mi

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6020th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+79B0

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“禰,親廟也。从示,爾聲。”


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