jī
pearl that is not quite round
Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 幾 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
2107th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+74A3 |
Shuowen | “璣，珠不圜也。从玉，幾聲。” |
Sources
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