fork of road

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
止 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

支 sound component

  Sound component

zhī

  

support, hold up

Definitions

 

fork of road; branching off; divergent; side road

Most common words with 歧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

歧视

discrimination

分歧

divergent

种族歧视

racism

歧途

fork in a road

误入歧途

to go astray

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-ke (dialect: no palatalization)

gjie

forked (road)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.5284% of movies

2165th most common character in movies

2071st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6B67


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