tí
hold in hand
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
tí
hold in hand; lift in hand; to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward; to mention; to raise (an issue); upwards character stroke; lifting brush stroke (in painting); scoop for measuring liquid
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤe | dej | tí | lift, grasp |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 89.7325% of movies
311th most common character in movies
196th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+63D0 |
Shuowen | “提,挈也。从手,是聲。” |
Sources
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