淅 — Chinese character
淅
xī
water used wash rice
- Pinyin
- xī
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 析
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 析
- Japanese
- 淅 as a kanji
Common words with 淅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淅沥 (淅瀝) | xī lì | (onom.) patter of rain |
淅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.