兮
xī

exclamatory particle

兮 xī
[exclamatory] adjectiveparticle
Used in classical poetry and literature, either in the middle or at the end of a sentence, to express exclamation or to pause for rhythm; similar to modern 啊 a
Xi
A Chinese surname.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,772nd most common 13.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,234th most common 13.4 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.8 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
8.78 per million

Details
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+516E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)