谢
xièTraditional: 谢
#1101 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to thank, thanks
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound combining the speech radical with a phonetic element. It originally meant to decline or take leave, and later came to mean to thank.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 讠 (speech) + 射 (shè, phonetic)
Stroke order
谢
Examples
。
Thank you so much, really.
。
He thanked the teacher.
，。
Thank goodness you are all right.
。
You are welcome.
。
I must thank him properly.
谢 (xiè) means to thank, thanks. It is the polite word you reach for whenever someone helps you.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 谢.
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