xúnqián

nettle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

寻 sound component

  Sound component

xún

  

seek

Evolution

荨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荨 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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qián

nettle

Most common words with 荨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

nettle

荨麻疹

urticaria

荨麻

nettle

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4259th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8368


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