xiá
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a small boat (used mainly in the place name 艋舺)

Examples

Měngxiá shì Táiběi zuì gǔlǎo de chéngqū zhī yī.
Bangka is one of the oldest districts in Taipei.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives almost solely in the Taipei place name 艋舺 (Bangka / Monga), a transliteration of an Aboriginal word for the dugout canoes once moored there. It joins the boat radical with the phonetic .
register
Bound and regional; seen only in the place name and old texts, not as a free word in everyday Chinese.

Components

radical
zhōu
boat
The boat radical on the left marks the meaning: a small boat or canoe.
phonetic
jiǎ
first; shell
Supplies the sound (reading drifted from jiǎ to xiá). It is purely phonetic, carrying none of its own meaning.

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Stroke Order

xiá