xiá

afar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

叚 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎ

  

false

Evolution

遐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
遐 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
遐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiá

afar, distant; old, advanced in; distant; long-lasting; to abandon

Most common words with 遐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

遐想

reverie

闻名遐迩

to be famous far and wide (idiom)

distant

遐思

reverie

遐迩

near and far

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤra

hae

xiá

distant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3852nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+9050

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“遐,遠也。从辵,叚聲。”


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