Chinese Character Wiki

褻

xiè

slight

Components
衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

cloth

埶 sound component

埶  Sound component

yì

  

art, skill

Evolution

褻 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
褻 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
褻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

亵 (褻) 

xiè

dirty, ragged; slight, insult, treat with disrespect; obscene; disrespectful

Most common words with 褻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

亵渎

to blaspheme

猥亵

obscene

亵

obscene

淫亵

obscene

亵慢

irreverent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ŋet

sjet

xiè

garment next to the body


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.9244% of movies

2609th most common character in movies

3495th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

亵

Unicode

U+893B

Shuowen

“褻，私服。从衣，埶聲。《詩》曰：‘是褻袢也。’”


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