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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形):  +  (container)

Looks like blood in a container (chalice) in sacrifice.

血 血 血 血
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

(radical 143 +0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月廿 (HBT), four-corner 27100, composition丿)

  1. blood

[edit] Descendants

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 1107, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33964
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1568, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3050, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8840

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale hyut3)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji chi)

  1. blood

[edit] Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised hyeol, McCune-Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)


[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin xiě (xie3), xuè (xue4), xuě (xue3), Wade-Giles hsieh3, hsüeh4, hsüeh3)

[edit] Noun

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin xuě, xiě or xuè)

  1. blood

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*xuet)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(huyết, hoét, tiết)

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