徵 - Dong Chinese dictionary

zhēng, zhǐ

invade

Original meaning:

to punish

Originally written as 𱖔, which depicts a knife with tooth-shaped decorations on the back. The components 彳 (walk) and 攵 (tap) were added later to indicate movement and action. Based on the original meaning "to punish". The meaning later shifted to "invade", "to summon" and "to recruit" while its other meaning used as a musical note is a phonetic loan.

Components

彳 Meaning component

chì

walk

彳 is a component form of 行. Here used to indicate movement.

𱖔 Iconic component

to punish

Depicts a knife with tooth-shaped decorations on the back.

攵 Meaning component

pū

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴. Used here to indicate action.

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

Modern

Definitions

征 (徵)

zhēng

summon, recruit; musical note; to invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence

徵

zhǐ

4th note in pentatonic scale 五音[wǔyīn], roughly sol; see also 徵|征[zhēng]

Most common words with 徵

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	徵	see also 徵\|征[zhēng]
	宫商角徵羽	pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
	变徵之声	modified fifth note of the pentatonic scale

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

癥

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*trəŋ	tring	zhēng	examine

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4086th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Simplified	征徵
Traditional	徵
Unicode	U+5FB5
Shuowen	“徵，召也。从微省，壬為徵，行於微而文達者即徵之。，古文徵。”