Chinese Character Wiki
㡿

chì

to scold

Original meaning: 

develop new land

Archaic variant of 斥. Phonosemantic compond: 广 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound. Originally a variant form of 宅, based on the original meaning "to develop new land". The 乇 component was confused with the visually similar 屰.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

屰 component

屰  component

nì

  

disobedient

Corruption of the original sound component 乇.

Evolution

㡿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㡿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
㡿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

㡿  

chì

(standard form of 斥) to accuse; to blame, to expel; to drive off; to reject

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t-qʰAk

tsyhek

chì

salty soil


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+387F

Shuowen

“，郤屋也。从广，屰聲。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.724-725



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