zhī
support, hold up
Pictograph of a hand (又) lifting a piece of bamboo (个).
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ke | tsye | zhī | support, hold up |
*ke | tsye | zhī | branch (of tree), limb |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 63.7995% of movies
563rd most common character in movies
437th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+652F |
Shuowen | “支,去竹之枝也。从手持半竹。,古文支。” |
Sources
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