gěi, jǐ
give
Simplified form of 給. Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 合 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k](r)[ə]p | kip | jǐ | furnish |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.8719% of movies
67th most common character in movies
180th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7ED9 |
Sources
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