Chinese Character Wiki
挤

jǐ

crowd

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 齐 represents the sound. Simplified form of 擠.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

齐 sound component

齐  Sound component

qí

  

even

Evolution

挤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
挤 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
挤 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

挤 (擠) 

jǐ

crowd, squeeze, push against; to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule)

Most common words with 挤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挤

to crowd in

拥挤

crowded

挤出

to squeeze out

挤压

to squeeze

挤满

jam-packed

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 15.7136% of movies

1723rd most common character in movies

1661st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

擠

Unicode

U+6324


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