薛
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wormwood like grass (classical)
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 艸 +13
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 薛
- Common rank
- #3,036
- Unicode
- U+859B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
Xue · Heisig RSH #3005
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 薛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亚达薛西 | Artaxerxes | |
| 薛城区 | Xuecheng, a district of Zaozhuang City 棗莊市|枣庄市[Zao3 zhuang1 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 薛福成 | Xue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist | |
| 薛居正 | Xue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties betwee… | |
| 薛仁贵 | Xue Rengui (614-683) great Tang dynasty general | |
| 薛城 | see 薛城區|薛城区[Xue1 cheng2 Qu1] | |
| 薛定谔方程 | Schrödinger's wave equation | |
| 薛定谔 | Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Austrian physicist | |
| 薛宝钗 | Xue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉 | |
| 薛稷 | Xue Ji (649-713), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 j… |
Sound family
These characters use 薛 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 薛 sound part | wormwood, marsh grass; a feudal state | |
| 孽 | bastard child; the consequence of a sin; evil | |
| 蘖 | stump, sprout |