xié HSK2

shoes

Variant of , with used as the phonetic component.

Components

Meaning component
leather
Sound component
where? what? how? why?

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthea[g]ˤre (no pre-Qín exx.)shoe

說文解字

《說文》:“鞵,革生鞮也。从革,奚聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica