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薛

xuē

wormwood, marsh grass; a feudal state

💡 Ideographic: A kind of bitter 辛 grass 艹
HSK 16 strokes Common (20%)
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艹
cǎo
grass, weed, plant, herb
丿
piě
slash
㠯
yǐ
according to, for, with; to use
辛
xīn
bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem
⿱艹⿰⿱丿㠯辛 i

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Component Tree i

cǎo
艹
grass, weed, plant, herb
📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 艸; grass sprouting
3 strokes
⿰⿱丿㠯辛
Radical component

Words Using 薛 (12)

Xuē
薛 ↗
surname Xue / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC)
xuē
薛 ↗
wormwood like grass (classical)
XuēRénguì
薛仁贵 ↗
Xue Rengui (614-683) great Tang dynasty general
Xuēchéng
薛城 ↗
Xuecheng district of Zaozhuang city [[棗莊市|枣庄市<Zǎozhuāngshì>]], Shandong
Xuēchéngqū
薛城区 ↗
Xuecheng district of Zaozhuang city [[棗莊市|枣庄市<Zǎozhuāngshì>]], Shandong
Xuēdìngè
薛定谔 ↗
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Austrian physicist
Xuēdìngèfāngchéng
薛定谔方程 ↗
Schrödinger's wave equation
XuēBǎochāi
薛宝钗 ↗
Xue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu [[賈寶玉|贾宝玉]]
XuēJūzhèng
薛居正 ↗
Xue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song [[舊五代史|旧五代史]]
XuēFúchéng
薛福成 ↗
Xue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist
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