zhé

fear

Evolution

讋 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
讋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讋 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
讋 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

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zhé

fear; envy; loquacious; to be frightened

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8417th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B8B

Shuowen

“讋,失氣言。一曰不止也。从言,龖省聲。傅毅讀若慴。,籀文讋不省。”


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