chī
eat
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 乞 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 87.9865% of movies
241st most common character in movies
475th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5403 |
Shuowen | “吃,言蹇難也。从口,气聲。” |
Sources
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