xié

shoes

Variant of , with used as the phonetic component.

Components
革 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

leather

奚 sound component

  Sound component

  

where? what? how? why?

Evolution

鞵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鞵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xié

shoes; boots

() 

xié

variant of [xié]

Most common words with 鞵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

shoe

鞋子

shoe

高跟鞋

high-heeled shoes

拖鞋

slippers

皮鞋

leather shoes

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤre (no pre-Qín exx.)

hea

xié

shoe


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.3631% of movies

989th most common character in movies

1638th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+97B5

Shuowen

“鞵,革生鞮也。从革,奚聲。”


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