jì
jealous
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 己 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jì
jealous, envious; fear; to be jealous of; dread; scruple; to avoid or abstain from; to quit; to give up sth
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-k(r)ək-s | giH | jì | warn; avoid |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.5123% of movies
1773rd most common character in movies
1922nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5FCC |
Shuowen | “忌，憎惡也。从心，己聲。” |
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