xié

harmonize

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 .

皆 sound component

  Sound component

jiē

  

all

Evolution

谐 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
谐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
谐 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xié

harmonize, agree; joke, jest; harmonious; humorous

Most common words with 谐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

和谐

harmonious

谐音

homonym

harmonious

诙谐

humorous

谐波

harmonic (wave with frequency an integer multiple of the fundamental)

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 5.4942% of movies

2462nd most common character in movies

2416th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8C10


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