xiéjié

fly upward

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

Components
页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

吉 sound component

  Sound component

  

lucky

Evolution

颉 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
颉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
颉 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xié

fly upward, soar; contest; to rob; (of a bird) to fly upwards; (of the neck) stiff

() 

Xié

surname Xie

() 

jié

to confiscate; legendary dog-like animal (old)

Most common words with 颉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to confiscate

仓颉

Cangjie input method (computing)

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3544th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+9889


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