祉 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

zhǐ

happiness

Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 止 represents the sound.

Components

礻 Meaning component

shì

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

止 Sound component

zhǐ

(foot), stop

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

zhǐ

happiness, blessings, good luck; felicity

Most common words with 祉

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	福祉	well-being
	祉	felicity

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[tʰ]rəʔ	trhiX	zhǐ	blessings

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4484th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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