zhǐ
site, location
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 止 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 21.9286% of movies
1425th most common character in movies
1848th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5740 |
Shuowen | “阯，基也。从，止聲。址，阯或从土。” |
Sources
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