Character Details
| permit (to) | Ascii: — | w455 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 许 | xǔ | tschuh | 3 | 讠 (speech) + 午 (noon) → allow; permit | 许 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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At noon most people take a break from work, when permitted, for lunch and have a few words (a chat) with each other. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Maybe, maybe not | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 149 - 虍 | hū | horn | tiger stripes | tiger‑stripe pattern | 虎 虎 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 讠 (speech) + 午 (noon) → allow; permit | 讠 (semantic) | 午 (phonetic) | phonetic from 午 | ||||||||