kuí

sunflower

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

癸 sound component

  Sound component

guǐ

  

10th heavenly stem

Evolution

葵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
葵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
葵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
葵 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
葵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kuí

sunflower; measure

Most common words with 葵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

向日葵

sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

sunflower

葵花

sunflower

葵花子

sunflower seeds

天竺葵

geranium (Pelargonium hortorum)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*gʷij

gjwij

kuí

mallow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2975% of movies

2838th most common character in movies

3580th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8475

Shuowen

“葵,菜也。从艸,癸聲。”


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