dì
imperial ancestor worship
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 帝 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7366th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7998 |
Shuowen | “禘，諦祭也。从示，帝聲。《周禮》曰：‘五歲一禘。’” |
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