chè
penetrate, thorough
Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 𢾿 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 徹
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
thorough | ||
to implement | ||
thorough | ||
through and through | ||
the whole night |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-[tʰ]ret | drjet | chè | penetrate |
*m-tʰret | drjet | chè | divide land acc. to a certain share system |
*tʰret | trhjet | chè | divide land acc. to a certain share system |
*tʰret | trhjet | chè | penetrate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.8850% of movies
1340th most common character in movies
1240th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5FB9 |
Shuowen | “徹，通也。从彳，从攴，从育。，古文徹。” |
Sources
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