zǐ, zǎi, zī
small thing
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 子 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 30.9146% of movies
1175th most common character in movies
1572nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+4ED4 |
Shuowen | “仔，克也。从人，子聲。” |
Sources
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