gěi

give

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

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

Silk is a precious material.

合 sound component

  Sound component

  

to join

Evolution

给 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
给 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
给 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

gěi

give; by, for; to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of ); (grammatical equivalent of ); (sentence intensifier)

() 

to supply; to provide

Most common words with 给
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to

给予

to accord

送给

to send

留给

to set aside for

交给

to give

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k](r)[ə]p

kip

furnish


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.8719% of movies

67th most common character in movies

180th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+7ED9


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