jì, jǐ
help, aid, cross a river
Original meaning:
[name of river]
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 齊 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 濟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
economy | ||
emergency relief | ||
to cross a river | ||
market economy | ||
to no avail |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤ[i]jʔ | tsejX | jǐ | numerous |
*[ts]ˤəjʔ | tsejX | jǐ | stately |
*[ts]ˤəjʔ | tsejX | jǐ | [river name] |
*[ts]ˤ[i]j(ʔ)-s | tsejH | jì | cross a stream; rescue |
*[ts]ˤ[i]j(ʔ)-s | tsejH | jì | stop |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.0179% of movies
1603rd most common character in movies
360th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6FDF |
Shuowen | “濟,水。出常山房子贊皇山,東入泜。从水,齊聲。” |
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