chì
wings
Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 支 represents the sound. Simplified form of 翄.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 翅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
wing | ||
variant of 翅[chì] | ||
to spread wings | ||
shark fin | ||
to spread one's wings and soar (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-kʰe-s | syeH | chì | wing |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.1509% of movies
2268th most common character in movies
2066th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7FC5 |
Shuowen | “翄,翼也。从羽,支聲。,翄或从氏。” |
Sources
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