xiē HSK1

a few

Components

Meaning component
this
Meaning component
èr two

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsaːls
sjaːl
seːs

說文解字

《說文新附》:“些,語辭也,見《楚辭》。从此,从二。其義未詳。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica