duì
correct
Original meaning:
develop land
Simplified form of 對. Depicts a hand (寸) holding a farming tool (丵) to develop land (土). Based on the original meaning "develop land".
Components
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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.8879% of movies
42nd most common character in movies
33rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5BF9 |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.169-171
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