zhī
human limbs
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 支 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 肢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
limb | ||
the four limbs of the body | ||
lower limbs | ||
limb | ||
to dismember |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ke | tsye | zhī | limb |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.8717% of movies
2249th most common character in movies
2335th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+80A2 |
Shuowen | “胑，體四胑也。从肉，只聲。肢，胑或从支。” |
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