xìn

consecrate sacrificial vessels by smearing blood

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

Components
血 meaning component

  Meaning component

xuè

  

blood

半 sound component

  Sound component

bàn

  

half

Evolution

衅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衅 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
衅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
衅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xìn

smear with blood in sacrifice; rift, quarrel; quarrel; dispute; a blood sacrifice (arch.)

Most common words with 衅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挑衅

to provoke

quarrel

寻衅

to pick a quarrel

边衅

border conflict

观衅伺隙

to look for the Achilles' heel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥rər-s

xinH

xìn

smear with blood


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3707% of movies

2929th most common character in movies

3146th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8845


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