chuí, zhuī
hammer
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 椎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
vertebra | ||
a hammer | ||
cervical vertebra | ||
lumbar vertebra (lower backbone) | ||
vertebra |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.druj | drwij | chuí | hammer |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2356% of movies
2637th most common character in movies
2455th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+690E |
Shuowen | “椎，擊也，齊謂之終葵。从木，隹聲。” |
Sources
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