Chinese Character Wiki

錫

xī

tin

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 易 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

易 sound component

易  Sound component

yì

  

easy

Evolution

錫 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
錫 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
錫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
錫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

锡 (錫) 

xī

tin, stannum; bestow, confer; tin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer; to grant; Taiwan pr. [xí]

Most common words with 錫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

锡

to bestow

无锡

Wuxi prefecture level city in Jiangsu

无锡市

Wuxi prefecture level city in Jiangsu

锡安

Zion

锡箔

tinfoil

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-lˤek

sek

xī

give

*s.lˤek

sek

xī

tin


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4988% of movies

2324th most common character in movies

2058th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

锡

Unicode

U+932B

Shuowen

“錫，銀鉛之間也。从金，易聲。”


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