说文解字

說文解字
Shuōwén Jiězì
Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest systematic Chinese character dictionary, compiled by Xu Shen 许慎 Xǔ Shèn in the Eastern Han dynasty (2nd century), containing 10,516 entries

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Entry Composition

1 说文 Shuōwén see 说文解字 Shuōwén Jiězì
=2 解 Xiè surname Xie
=2 解 jiě
  1. to divide
  2. to break up
  3. to split
  4. to separate
  5. to dissolve
  6. to solve
  7. to melt
  8. to remove
  9. to untie
  10. to loosen
  11. to open
  12. to emancipate
  13. to explain
  14. to understand
  15. to know
  16. a solution
  17. a dissection
=2 解 jiè to transport under guard
=2 解 xiè
  1. acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)
  2. variant of 懈 xiè and 邂 xiè (old)
=2 解 hài

used in 解州 (Xièzhōu)
3 字 zì
  1. letter
  2. symbol
  3. character
  4. word
  5. courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

classifier: 個