zhāi
pluck, pick
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 啇 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhāi
pluck, pick; select; specify; to take; to borrow; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to select; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤrek | treak | zhāi | pluck (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 9.1943% of movies
2118th most common character in movies
2026th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+6458 |
Shuowen | “摘，拓果樹實也。从手，啻聲。” |
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