積 - Dong Chinese dictionary

jī

accumulate, store up

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 責 represents the sound.

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé

grain stalk

責 Sound component

zé

responsibility

積 and 責 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.積 /*[ts]ek/
責 /*s-tˤrek/, /*s-tˤrek/, /*s-tˤrek-s/

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

积 (積)

jī

accumulate, store up, amass; to amass; to accumulate; to store; measured quantity (such as area of volume); product (the result of multiplication); to integrate (math.); to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.); old; long-standing

Most common words with 積