Chinese Character Wiki
激

jī

excite, provoke

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 敫 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

敫 sound component

敫  Sound component

jiǎo

  

shining light

Evolution

激 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
激 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
激 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

激  

jī

arouse, excite, incite; quickly; to arouse; to incite; to excite; to stimulate; sharp; fierce; violent

Most common words with 激
Freq.
Word
Meaning

激动

to excite

刺激

to provoke

感激

to be grateful

激情

passion

激烈

intense

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤewk

kek

jī

dam up (water)


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 65.7857% of movies

628th most common character in movies

710th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+6FC0

Shuowen

“激，水礙衺疾波也。从水，敫聲。一曰半遮也。”


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