jì, jǐ
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Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 己 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)əʔ | kiX | jǐ | leading thread |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 49.0149% of movies
833rd most common character in movies
584th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D00 |
Shuowen | “紀,絲別也。从糸,己聲。” |
Sources
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