Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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夏 xià summer
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#694
Chapter-35 HSK-A
10 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Hsia is a contraction of 頁 yeh head, an obsolete word for hands, and an obsolete radical which is here said to refer to the feet. It originally meant an inhabitant of the Middle Kingdom, probably from the name of a dynasty which ruled China from B.C. 2205 to B.C. 1818. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
夏
xià
summer/the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC/Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432)/surname Xia
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