赫 (hè): awe-inspiring, abbr. for 赫茲|赫兹, hertz (Hz)
赫 (hè) is a Chinese character meaning “awe-inspiring.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 赤 (structural) and 赤 (structural). It ranks #1338 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 赫 blushing 赤 bright red 赤. Its radical form 赤 (red) appears in many related characters such as 赤 (chì, red).
Definitions
- awe-inspiring
- abbr. for 赫茲|赫兹, hertz (Hz)
Etymology & Origin
ideographicBlushing 赤 bright red 赤
Decomposition: ⿰赤赤 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 赫尔 | hè ěr | Hull (name) |
| 显赫 | xiǎn hè | illustrious |
| 巴赫 | bā hè | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer |
| 赫鲁晓夫 | hè lǔ xiǎo fu | Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964 |
| 兆赫 | zhào hè | megahertz |
| 赫伯特 | hè bó tè | Herbert (name) |
| 赫尔辛基 | hè ěr xīn jī | Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland |
| 赫兹 | hè zī | hertz (Hz), unit of frequency |
| 赫赫有名 | hè hè yǒu míng | illustrious |
| 赫然 | hè rán | with astonishment |
| 拉赫曼尼诺夫 | lā hè màn ní nuò fū | Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) |
| 谢赫 | xiè hè | Xie He (479-502), portrait painter from Qi of Southern dynasties 南齊|南齐[Nan2 Qi2] |
| 赫赫 | hè hè | brilliant |
| 马赫 | mǎ hè | Mach (name) |
| 舒马赫 | shū mǎ hè | Michael Schumacher (1969-), former German racing driver |
赫 appears in 86 compound words: 48 as the first character, 21 as the last, and 31 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 赫 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (9)
Showing 8 of 9 idioms containing 赫.
Example Sentences
学习赫字需要反复练习，才能写得工整。
xué xí hè zì xū yāo fǎn fù liàn xí , cái néng xiě dé gōng zhěng .
Mastering the character "赫" requires repeated practice to achieve neat and precise writing.
欧霸|森林主场1:2负费伦巴治仍晋级 赫臣奥杜尔成救世主
ōu bà sēn lín zhǔ chǎng 1 : 2 fù fèi lún bā zhì réng jìn jí hè chén ào dù ěr chéng jiù shì zhǔ
Forest lost 1:2 at home to Ferenbach and still advanced, and Hutson Odul became the savior
李洙赫帅到像AI“肉麻台词狂撩Jisoo” 本...
lǐ 洙 hè shuài dào xiàng A I ròu má tái cí kuáng 撩 J i s o o běn . . .
Lee so-hyuk is so handsome that he is like an AI "fleshy line crazy flirting with Jisoo" Ben...
王赫奇:越来越多外国人来马过新年?
wáng hè qí : yuè lái yuè duō wài guó rén lái mǎ guò xīn nián ?
Wang Heqi: More and more foreigners are coming to Malaysia for the New Year?
冬奥/男子4人雪车洛赫纳再登顶 马尔吉斯创5金纪录
dōng ào nán zǐ 4 rén xuě chē 洛 hè nà zài dēng dǐng mǎ ěr jí sī chuàng 5 jīn jì lù
Winter Olympics/Men's 4-man bobsleigh, Lochner reached the top again, and Margis set a 5-gold record
台中某饭店男租客多日未见 警消开门赫见已尸僵
tái zhōng mǒu fàn diàn nán zū kè duō rì wèi jiàn jǐng xiāo kāi mén hè jiàn yǐ shī jiāng
A male tenant of a hotel in Taichung has not been seen for many days, and the police opened the door, and he saw that he was dead
布拉赫为一千多颗恒星做了编目。
Bù lā hè wèi yī qiān duō kē héngxīng zuò le biānmù.
Brahe catalogued over 1000 stars.
我住在马斯特里赫特。
Wǒ zhù zài Mǎsītèlǐhètè.
I live in Maastricht.
Character Family
赤 Radical Family — Characters sharing the red radical
Related Characters
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