衅 — Chinese character
衅
xìn
to quarrel, to dispute; a blood sacrifice
- Pinyin
- xìn
- Radical
- 143 ⾎ (Blood)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 血 半
- Formation
- pictophonetic — blood; meaning component 血; sound component 半
- Traditional
- 釁
Common words with 衅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挑衅 (挑釁) | tiǎo xìn | to provoke; provocation |
| 寻衅 (尋釁) | xún xìn | to pick a quarrel; to start a fight |
| 观衅伺隙 (觀釁伺隙) | guān xìn sì xì | lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); fig. to search out one's opponent's weak points |
| 边衅 (邊釁) | biān xìn | clash on the frontier; border conflict |
| 衅端 (釁端) | xìn duān | pretext for a dispute |
| 衅隙 (釁隙) | xìn xì | enmity |
English words written with 衅
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.