cè
measure
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 則 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]rək | tsrhik | cè | fathom (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 41.9990% of movies
842nd most common character in movies
861st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6E2C |
Shuowen | “測,深所至也。从水,則聲。” |
Sources
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