tì
be cautious
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 易 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 惕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
vigilant | ||
vigilance | ||
fearful | ||
cautious and diligent all day long (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ˤek | thek | tì | anxious, worried |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.6292% of movies
2588th most common character in movies
2742nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+60D5 |
Shuowen | “惕，敬也。从心，易聲。悐，或从狄。” |
Sources
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