Chinese Character Wiki
制

zhì

control

Original meaning: 

break

Depicts cutting down a tree (未) with a knife (刂). Based on the original meaning "break". The meaning later shifted to "control".

Components
未 iconic component

未  Iconic component

wèi

  

not yet

Depicts a tree.

刂 iconic component

刂  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

制 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
制 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
制 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
制 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

制  

zhì

system; to control; to regulate; variant of 製|制[zhì]

制 (製) 

zhì

make, manufacture; produce; to manufacture; to make

Most common words with 制
Freq.
Word
Meaning

控制

control

制度

institution

制造

to make

制作

to make

制

system

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

製 掣

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tet-s

tsyejH

zhì

cut out, prepare


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 77.2225% of movies

419th most common character in movies

163rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

製

Unicode

U+5236

Shuowen

“制，裁也。从刀，从未。未，物成，有滋味，可裁斷。一曰止也。，古文制如此。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License