xīng

raw meat

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

星 sound component

  Sound component

xīng

  

a star

Evolution

腥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xīng

raw meat; rank, strong-smelling; fishy (smell)

Most common words with 腥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

血腥

reeking of blood

fishy (smell)

鱼腥草

Houttuynia cordata

腥风血雨

carnage

荤腥

meat and fish

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.1006% of movies

2549th most common character in movies

2747th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8165

Shuowen

“腥,星見食豕,令肉中生小息肉也。从肉,从星,星亦聲。”


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