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xī

to split

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Original meaning: to harvest wheat

Depicts a person (人) hitting (攵) wheat (來) to harvest it.

Components

來
來 Iconic component

Depicts a stalk of wheat.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 來 than it was in ancient scripts.
攵
攵 Iconic component
人
人 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

說文解字

《說文》：“，坼也。从攴，从厂。厂之性坼，果孰有味亦坼，故謂之。从未聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)