cè
book
Simplified form of 冊. Pictograph of strips of bamboo strung together. In ancient China writing was done on bamboo strips.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ](ˤ)rek | tsrheak | cè | tablet, records |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 14.6724% of movies
1757th most common character in movies
1525th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+518C |
Shuowen | “冊，符命也，諸矦進受于王也。象其札一長一短，中有二編之形。笧，古文从竹。” |
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