huì HSK7

general term for plants

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approved by cochleoid · Jun 13, 2022, 12:46 AM · Reviewed by cochleoid on Jun 13, 2022, 12:46 AM

Added original form 芔 and mentioned how as a component this is most likely not referring to grass. Baxter's spreadsheet doesn't have this character, but Digital EDOC had it and characters that Baxter did have (卉芔諱虺), so I was able to get the old chinese and middle chinese in the same format.

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Depicts a group of plants (, ). Originally written as (, ) resulting in its erroneous replacement of the once visually similar but unrelated form of (run) within some characters.

Components

Iconic component
chè, cǎo sprout
Iconic component
cao, cǎo grass

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

《說文》:“卉,艸之總名也。从艸、屮。”

Sources