jí
jujube tree
Phonosemantic compound. 朿 represents the meaning and 朿 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 棘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
intractable | ||
brambles | ||
thorns | ||
to break through hardships | ||
sea-buckthorn |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*krək | kik | jí | thorns |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.6543% of movies
2495th most common character in movies
2870th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+68D8 |
Shuowen | “棘，小棗叢生者。从並朿。” |
Sources
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