羲 (xī): used in the name Fuxi, a mythic…

Meanings

1 used in the name Fuxi, a mythical sage-emperor
2 surname Xi

Examples

HSK 7-9

伏羲据说发明了八卦。

Fúxī jùshuō fāmíng le bāguà.

Fuxi is said to have invented the Eight Trigrams.

HSK 7-9

王羲之被尊为书圣。

Wáng Xīzhī bèi zūn wéi shūshèng.

Wang Xizhi is honored as the Sage of Calligraphy.

Tips

culture

You will meet 羲 mainly in two names: 伏羲 (the mythical emperor who introduced fishing, hunting, and the trigrams) and the calligrapher 王羲之. It has no everyday standalone meaning.

Components

radical

羊 yáng

sheep; goat

Top 羊 is the indexing radical. The link is graphic rather than meaning-based - the sheep shape sits on top and the lower parts carry the real content.

semantic

禾 hé

grain; standing crop

Below 羊 sits 禾, the grain element, woven together with the dagger-axe 戈 into the lower block of this old ceremonial character.

semantic

戈 gē

dagger-axe; halberd

The dagger-axe 戈 interlocks with 禾; its strokes finish near the end of the character, after the small 丂 element is written.

ideograph

丂 kǎo

obstructed breath (archaic element)

A small two-stroke element tucked under the 禾-戈 block. It has no independent meaning here; it is a leftover graphic part of this ancient sacrificial-vessel character.