zhī, zhí
to gather
Original meaning:
wooden stake
Depicts a wooden stake sticking in the ground.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tək | tsyik | shì | adhere (?) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6220 |
Shuowen | “戠,闕。从戈,从音。” |
Sources
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