xì
a shoe
Pictograph of a bird with its two wings opened. Based on the original meaning "magpie", now written as 鵲. The current meaning "shoe" is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.qʰAk | sjek | xì | slipper, shoe |
*s.qʰak (dialect: *s.qʰ> MC tsh-, *-ak > -jak) | tshjak | xì | slipper, shoe |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6827th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8204 |
Shuowen | “舄，也。象形。，篆文舄从隹、。” |
Sources
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