zhī
respect
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 氐 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4203rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7957 |
Shuowen | “祗,敬也。从示,氐聲。” |
Sources
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