Xin’s strokes

There are a total of 13 strokes of Xin. Other explanations are as follows:

1. Brief description of the text

Xin (pinyin xīn) is the general standard for Chinese characters. Grade word. The original meaning of this word is the aroma of the sacrifices enjoyed by ghosts and gods during sacrifices. There are also other meanings such as envy, covet, and joy. The order of strokes is: dot, horizontal, dot, left, horizontal, vertical, horizontal fold, horizontal, horizontal, left, horizontal left, left, and hold.

2. Evolution of etymology

The character Xin is a pictophonetic character. This character first appeared in the Xiaozhuan characters of "Shuowen"; the word "yin" on the left indicates the pronunciation, and the word "qian" on the right In oracle bone inscriptions, the character looks like a person opening his mouth to yawn, so the characters composed of the character "qian" are mostly related to the inflow and outflow of Qi;

Since the original meaning of "Xin" is that ghosts and gods inhale the smell of sacrifices , so "owe" is used to express meaning. The character structure of the Han Dynasty was relatively broad. The evolution process of the character Xin is: Yan-Yin-Xin.

Extended information:

1. Introduction to Shuowen Jiezi

Shuowen Jiezi, referred to as "Shuowen", was written by an Eastern Han Dynasty classics scholar and writer The Chinese language reference book compiled by the scholar Xu Shen is the earliest Chinese language dictionary in my country that systematically analyzes the glyphs of Chinese characters and studies the origin of Chinese characters. It is also one of the earliest dictionaries in the world and is known as "the first kind of book in the world".

Many scholars have studied "Shuowen Jiezi" in the past dynasties, and the research was most prosperous in the Qing Dynasty. The annotations of Duan Yucai, Zhu Junsheng, Gui Fu, and Wang Jun are particularly highly praised, and the four of them are also honored as the "Four Masters of Shuowen".

2. Content of the work

The content of Shuowen Jiezi is fifteen volumes, taking Xiaozhuan as the research object, and also referring to ancient Chinese and Zhenwen other than Xiaozhuan, from one to fourteen volumes. The volume is a textual explanation, and the fifteen volumes are a narrative. Each volume is divided into two parts, so it is actually thirty volumes. ***There are 9353 prefixes and 1163 heavy scripts (ancient Chinese, variants, etc.). The prefixes are based on Xiaozhuan, and there are also variants such as ancient scripts and Zhouwen.

The first creation of Chinese character radicals complied with the requirements of the times to unify and standardize Chinese characters. According to the principle of "similarities gather together, things belong to groups, the same ties are related, the principles are consistent, and they are mixed but not overdone." According to the principle of "connecting shapes with shapes", we use the shape as the key link and set up training based on the shape. We use the same shape sides in Chinese characters as the basis for classification and arrange them into 540 radicals;

Start from the "一" radical At the end of the "Hai" part, the first character of the same part is the radical, and it is marked with "Everything that belongs to something comes from something". All words with the same radical are listed together, and the original meaning is analyzed in order to accept the flow, and the key points are explained in detail, with the intention of revealing the inner rules and meaning system of the words.