jì
skill
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 支 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]reʔ | gjeX | jì | skill |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 39.3240% of movies
966th most common character in movies
422nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6280 |
Shuowen | “技,巧也。从手,支聲。” |
Sources
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