huì HSK4

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Original meaning: hedgehog

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "hedgehog". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

Meaning component
Change in meaning
hints at the original meaning of , "hedgehog", which is no longer the most common meaning of in modern Mandarin.
SoundRemnant component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɢruds

說文解字

《說文》:“,蟲似豪豬者。从,省聲。蝟,或从虫。”

Sources

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