zhī
weave
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 戠 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 織
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to organize | ||
to weave | ||
spinning and weaving | ||
textile | ||
to weave |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tək | tsyik | zhī | weave (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 28.1916% of movies
1093rd most common character in movies
578th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E54 |
Shuowen | “織，作布帛之總名也。从糸，戠聲。” |
Sources
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