zǐ
one thousand millions
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 𠂔 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 秭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Zigui county in Yichang 宜昌[Yíchāng], Hubei | ||
Zigui county in Yichang 宜昌[Yíchāng], Hubei | ||
billion |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts][i]jʔ | tsijX | zǐ | a high number |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6171st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+79ED |
Shuowen | “秭，五稯為秭。从禾，聲。一曰數億至萬曰秭。” |
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