亵 · xiè
slight, insult, treat with disrespect
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
slight, insult, treat with disrespect
- Mandarin
- xiè
- Cantonese
- sit3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4EB5
- Radical
- 亠 · 8
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 亵
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
褻
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xiè
- kCantonese
- sit3
- kDefinition
- slight, insult, treat with disrespect
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 8.10 145.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+893B
- kTGH
- 2013:5250
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xiè 1276.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xiè 406.070