Chinese Character Wiki

側

cè, zhāi

side

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 則 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

則 sound component

則  Sound component

zé

  

rule

Evolution

側 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
側 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
側 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

侧 (側) 

cè

side; incline, slant, lean; the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral

侧 (側) 

zhāi

lean on one side

Most common words with 側
Freq.
Word
Meaning

侧

the side

侧面

side

右侧

right side

左侧

left side

外侧

outer side

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]rək

tsrik

cè

slanting, oblique; side


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.2949% of movies

1740th most common character in movies

1220th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

侧

Unicode

U+5074

Shuowen

“側，旁也。从人，則聲。”


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