draw water from well

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

及 sound component

  Sound component

  

extend

Evolution

汲 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
汲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

draw water from well; imbibe; to draw (water)

 

surname Ji

Most common words with 汲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

汲取

to draw

surname Ji

汲水

to draw water

汲引

to draw water

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3374th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+6C72

Shuowen

“汲,引水於井也。从水,从及,及亦聲。”


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