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纥

紇
hé / gē
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Meanings

  1. 1 used in 回纥, the Huihe (early Uyghur) people of the Tang dynasty

Examples

回纥是唐代强大的游牧民族。
Huíhé shì Tángdài qiángdà de yóumù mínzú.
The Huihe were a powerful nomadic people during the Tang dynasty.
回纥后来改称回鹘。
Huíhé hòulái gǎi chēng Huíhú.
The Huihe later changed their name to Huihu.

Tips

history
This reading exists only in 回纥 ('Huihe'), a Turkic steppe confederation that allied with and pressured the Tang. They later renamed themselves 回鹘 and are ancestral to the modern Uyghurs. Outside the name 回纥, the character is read gē.

Components

radical
纟 jiǎosīpáng
silk; thread (left-side form of 糸)
The silk radical, side form of 糸. It ties the character to thread and fabric — a knot in thread, or a grade of silk.
phonetic
乞 qǐ
to beg
Standalone 乞 reads qǐ; here it supplies the sound, drifting to gē (and hé in the ethnonym reading). Phonetic only, no meaning.

Stroke Order

纥 hé