Chinese Character Wiki

稚

zhì

young

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound. Simplified form of 稺.

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

隹 sound component

隹  Sound component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

稚 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
稚 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
稚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

稚  

zhì

young, immature; childhood; infantile; young

稚 (稺) 

zhì

old variant of 稚[zhì]

稚 (穉) 

zhì

variant of 稚[zhì]

Most common words with 稚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

幼稚

young

稚嫩

puerile

稚

young

稚气

infantile

幼稚园

kindergarten (Tw)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lrəj-s

drijH

zhì

young


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.5651% of movies

2590th most common character in movies

2720th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7A1A


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