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

Meanings

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

Examples

伏羲据说发明了八卦。

Fúxī jùshuō fāmíng le bāguà.

Fuxi is said to have invented the Eight Trigrams.

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.