懂中文 Dong Chinese

这

zhè, yàn

this

Original meaning: 

to meet

Simplified form of 這, which originally meant "to meet" and had a pronunciation corresponding to modern Mandarin yàn. 這 later acquired an unrelated pronunciation and meaning through confusion with another character.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

文 sound,simplified component

文  Sound Simplified component

wén

  

writing

Simplified from the 言 component in the traditional character 這, which is based on archaic pronunciation yàn.

Evolution

这 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
这 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

这 (這) 

zhè

this, the, here; this; these; (commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)

这 (這) 

yàn

(archaic) to meet

Most common words with 这
Freq.
Word
Meaning

这

this

这个

this

这样

so

这些

these

这么

so much