Chinese Character Wiki

埴

zhí

soil with large clay content

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

earth

直 sound component

直  Sound component

zhí

  

straight

Evolution

埴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
埴 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
埴 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
埴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

埴  

zhí

soil with large clay content

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ək

dzyik

zhí

clay


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6867th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+57F4

Shuowen

“埴，黏土也。从土，直聲。”


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