檄
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Meaning: dispatch
💡 Imagine a wooden stick (木) with a message ordering troops to march – a dispatch.
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Character Story & Explanation
檄 (xí) refers to an official dispatch or proclamation, historically used in ancient China to rally troops or denounce enemies. It combines the ‘wood’ radical (木) with phonetic components, evoking the wooden slips on which such announcements were written.
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