Chinese Character Wiki
替

tì

take the place of, stand in for

Depicts two people (夫) standing side-by-side, one person higher and one person lower. Represents one person taking the place of another. The 曰 component was added at the bottom to distinguish from 並, which also depicts two people standing side-by-side.

Components
夫 iconic component

夫  Iconic component

fū, fú

  

man

夫 iconic component

夫  Iconic component

fū, fú

  

man

曰 distinguishing component

曰  Distinguishing component

yuē

  

say

Evolution

替 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
替 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
替 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
替 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
替 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

替  

tì

change, replace, substitute for; to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for

Most common words with 替
Freq.
Word
Meaning

替

for

代替

to replace

替代

to replace

替补

a substitute

替换

to exchange

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

潜

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n̥ˤi[t]-s

thejH

tì

discard


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 45.7953% of movies

915th most common character in movies

1079th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+66FF

Shuowen

“，廢，一偏下也。从竝，白聲。暜，或从曰。，或从兟，从曰。”


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