agree

Birds  flocking together 

Components
合 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

to join

羽 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

feather

Evolution

翕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

agree; to open and close (the mouth etc); friendly; compliant; Taiwan pr. [xì]

Most common words with 翕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

friendly

翕动

to open and close (the mouth etc)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ(r)[ə]p

xip

united, harmonious

*qʰ(r)[ə]p

xip

draw in; inhale


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5066th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7FD5

Shuowen

“翕,起也。从羽,合聲。”


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