Chinese Character Wiki
紙

zhǐ

paper

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 氏 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

氏 sound component

氏  Sound component

shì, zhī

  

clan

Evolution

紙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
紙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
紙 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
紙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纸 (紙) 

zhǐ

paper; CL:張|张[zhāng],沓[dá]; classifier for documents, letter etc

Most common words with 紙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纸

paper

报纸

newspaper

纸条

slip of paper

纸巾

napkin

图纸

blueprint

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.teʔ

tsyeX

zhǐ

paper


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 39.8206% of movies

968th most common character in movies

1020th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

纸

Unicode

U+7D19

Shuowen

“紙，絮一笘也。从糸，氏聲。”


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