jí
draw water from well
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 及 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
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。” |
Sources
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