啬

嗇
sè
#3,851 most
frequent character
stingy

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

啬 was first drawn as grain stored in a building. It meant to harvest grain. The meaning then grew to stingy or miserly. In the modern form, 回 stands for the building.

Drawn as: grain stored in building

啬 as a component in other characters

sound4 characters
蔷穑樯嫱
picture1 character
墙

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Homophones

色sè
colour, look, expression, scene
瑟sè
a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings
塞sè
to stop up, to stuff, to cope with

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