Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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昔 xī the old days
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#743a
Chapter-38 HSK-A
8 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Hsi is composed of 日 jih sun and the corruption of an obsolete character meaning stale meat. It originally meant dried meat, and is now used in the sense of formerly, of yore. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
昔
xī
former times/the past/Taiwan pr. [xi2]/surname Xi