zā
to go round
Origin unclear. Possibly depicts the roots of a plant.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤ[ə]p | tsop | zā | a round, a circle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4170th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+5E00 |
Shuowen | “帀,周也。从反之而帀也。” |
Sources
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