zī
grow
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zī
grow, multiply, increase; thrive; to grow; to nourish; to increase; to cause; juice; taste; (dialect) to spout; to spurt
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ə | tsi | zī | abundant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.1165% of movies
1845th most common character in movies
1931st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6ECB |
Shuowen | “滋,益也。从水,茲聲。一曰滋水,出牛飲山白陘谷,東入呼沱。” |
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