zhái
residence
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhái
residence, dwelling, home; grave; residence; (coll.) to stay in at home; to hang around at home
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-tˤ<r>ak | draek | zhái | residence |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 7.0639% of movies
2251st most common character in movies
1858th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5B85 |
Shuowen | “宅,所託也。从宀,乇聲。,古文宅。,亦古文宅。” |
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