qiàn

madder

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

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

西 sound component

西  Sound component

  

west

Evolution

茜 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
茜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiàn

madder, rubia cordifolia; reeds; Rubia cordifolia; Indian madder; munjeet

 

used in the transliteration of people's names

Most common words with 茜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

munjeet

露茜

Lucy (from the Narnia chronicles)

茜草

munjit

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8672% of movies

1811th most common character in movies

3097th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+831C

Shuowen

“茜,茅蒐也。从艸,西聲。”


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