open

To leave  in the flesh ⺼;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

去 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

go away

Evolution

胠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

open; throw away; flank of animal; side; to pry open; to steal

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]<r>ap

khjaep

armpit; right wing of an army


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6997th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+80E0

Shuowen

“胠,亦下也。从肉,去聲。”


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