epistaxis

To be shamed  by a bloody  nose

Components
血 meaning component

  Meaning component

xuè

  

blood

丑 meaning component

  Meaning component

chǒu

  

second earthly branch; (simp.) ugly

Evolution

衄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衄 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

epistaxis, nosebleed; to be defeated; to bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc); fig. to be defeated

() 

old variant of [nǜ]

() 

variant of [nǜ]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5839th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8844

Shuowen

“衄,鼻出血也。从血,丑聲。”


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