昔
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former times; the past; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 日 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 昔
- Common rank
- #2,584
- Unicode
- U+6614
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
times past · Heisig RSH #971
salad + 日 day
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 昔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 修昔底德 | Thucydides (c. 455–c. 400 BC), Greek historian and author of History of the Peloponnesian … | |
| 昔阳县 | Xiyang, a county in Jinzhong City 晉中市|晋中市[Jin4 zhong1 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 今不如昔 | things are not as good as they used to be | |
| 美洛昔康 | meloxicam (anti-inflammatory drug) | |
| 今非昔比 | (idiom) things are very different now; times have changed | |
| 阿昔洛韦 | aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug | |
| 昔日 | former days; in the past | |
| 昔阳 | see 昔陽縣|昔阳县[Xi1 yang2 Xian4] | |
| 昔年 | former years; previous years | |
| 古昔 | (literary) ancient times; in olden days | |
| 果昔 | (Tw) smoothie | |
| 修昔底德陷阱 | Thucydides Trap (theory that war may result when a rising power threatens to displace an e… | |
| 奶昔 | milkshake (Note: 昔[xi1] is loaned from English "shake" via Cantonese 昔, pr. sik1) | |
| 宿昔 | formerly; in the past | |
| 往昔 | the past | |
| 今昔 | past and present; yesterday and today |
Sound family
These characters use 昔 as their sound component — compare how they read.