Chinese Character Wiki
纸

zhǐ

paper

Simplified form of 紙. Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 氏 represents the sound.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

氏 sound component

氏  Sound component

shì, zhī

  

clan

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
纸 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
纸 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

纸 (紙) 

zhǐ

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

纸 (帋) 

zhǐ

variant of 紙|纸[zhǐ]

Most common words with 纸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纸

paper

报纸

newspaper

纸条

slip of paper

纸巾

napkin

图纸

blueprint

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 39.8206% of movies

968th most common character in movies

1020th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

紙

Unicode

U+7EB8


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