First seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the original meaning refers to chopping wood with an axe, that is, the so-called "taking wood" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is the original word of "salary", which leads to the original, new, unused and opposite meaning of "old".
The meaning of the present has just existed and just experienced; Initial and unused, as opposed to "old" and "old"; The nature has become better, as opposed to the "old"; Not long ago, just now; Represents the state and attributes different from the old quality; Call someone or something when you get married; The abbreviation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China can also be used as a surname.
There are many related words, such as brand-new, Spring Festival, New Year, freshness, news, newcomer, novelty, novelty and so on.
New, cognitive and pictophonetic characters. The word "new" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions consists of "gold" and "wood", which means chopping wood with an axe. The shape of the word "gold" on the right side of bronze inscriptions and Warring States inscriptions has changed.
The word "Xin" in the seal script is neat and literal, and the word "Xin" in the small seal script has a "wood" base under the word "Xin", which makes the strokes of the word change from simple to complicated. The word "Xin" in the official script of Han Dynasty inherited its bronze inscription and changed the word "Xin" to "Qin".
After the official reform, "new" was written in regular script, and now it is standardized to use "new". Because the word "Xin" is devoted to the extension of the meaning, the meaning of "Chai" is expressed by adding the semantic symbol "Fu" and writing it as "Fu".