xiè

slight

Components

Meaning component
clothes

cloth

Sound component
yì, shì art, skill

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjets-ŋetgarment next to the body
Zhengzhangsŋed

說文解字

私服。从衣埶聲。《詩》曰:“是褻袢也。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

xiè slight Simplified

Components

Meaning component
clothes
Sound component
zhí hold in hand

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode