xiá

rosy clouds

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
雨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rain

叚 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎ

  

false

Evolution

霞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
霞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiá

rosy clouds; rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset

Most common words with 霞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

red clouds

晚霞

sunset glow

林青霞

Brigitte Lin (1954-), Taiwanese actress

霞光

multicolored sunlight of sunrise or sunset

栖霞

Xixia county level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2021st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+971E

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“霞,赤雲气也。从雨,叚聲。”


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