奚
xī

where? what? how? why?

奚 xī
what
(literary) question word meaning "what", "where", "why", or "how"; equivalent to 什么 shén​me, 哪里 nǎ​li, or 为什么 wèi​shén​me
servant
(literary) a low-ranking official, child servant, or prisoner of war forced into servitude
Xi (surname)
a surname
Xi ethnic group
(historical) the Xi people, an ancient ethnic group in northern China related to the Khitans, originally known as the 库莫奚 kù​mò​xī
Xi (place)
an ancient place name in the State of Lu (in modern-day Tengzhou, Shandong), the fief of Xi Zhong during the Spring and Autumn period

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,395th most common 5.93 per million
Movie subtitles
3,678th most common 1.09 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.25 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+595A

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