congratulate

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

Components
加 sound component

  Sound component

jiā

  

add

贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

In ancient China shells were used as currency.

Evolution

贺 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
贺 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

congratulate; send present; to congratulate

() 

surname He

Most common words with 贺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

祝贺

to congratulate

to congratulate

贺卡

greeting card

贺岁

to pay a New Year's visit

庆贺

to congratulate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-kˤaj-s

haH

congratulate


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 17.9241% of movies

1476th most common character in movies

1690th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D3A


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