 | 衅 | ||
| consecrate sacrificial vessels by smearing blood; rift | |||
| Radical | 血 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | xìn | Cantonese reading | jan3 |
| Japanese on reading | kin | Japanese kun reading | chinuru hima suki |
| Korean reading | hun | Vietnamese reading | |
| Traditional Variant(s) | 釁 | smear with blood in sacrifice; rift, quarrel | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 釁 | ||
| 衅 | [ xìn ] quarrel, dispute, a blood sacrifice (arch.) |
| 衅端 | [ xìn duān ] pretext for a dispute |
| 衅隙 | [ xìn xì ] enmity |
| ⇒ 寻衅 | [ xún xìn ] to pick a quarrel, to start a fight |
| ⇒ 寻衅滋事罪 | [ xún xìn zī shì zuì ] disorderly behavior (PRC law) |
| ⇒ 挑衅 | [ xìn ] to provoke, provocation |
| ⇒ 观衅伺隙 | [ guān xìn sì xì ] lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom), fig. to search out one's opponent's weak points, to look for the Achilles' heel |
| ⇒ 边衅 | [ biān xìn ] clash on the frontier, border conflict |