huì

teach

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

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

每 sound component

  Sound component

měi

  

every

Evolution

诲 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
诲 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
诲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
诲 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诲 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

huì

teach, instruct; encourage, urge; to teach; to instruct; to induce

Most common words with 诲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

教诲

to instruct

to teach

诲人不倦

instructing with tireless zeal (idiom, from Analects)

诲淫诲盗

to promote sex and violence

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3510th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BF2


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