zhí
wooden stake
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 戠 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tək | tsyik | zhí | pole |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+6A34 |
Shuowen | “樴,弋也。从木,戠聲。” |
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