dī
dike
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound. Simplified form of 隄.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3936% of movies
2954th most common character in movies
2464th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5824 |
Shuowen | “堤,滯也。从土,是聲。” |
Sources
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