暇
xiá

leisure

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
叚
叚 Sound component
jiǎ, xiá false

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthæH[ɡ]ˤra-sleisure
Zhengzhangɡraːs
Unicodehà

說文解字

閑也。从日叚聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)