zhài
debt
A person's 亻 duty 責; 責 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tˤrek-s | tsreaH | zhài | debt |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.6359% of movies
1853rd most common character in movies
1223rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+50B5 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“債,債負也。从人、責,責亦聲。” |
Sources
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