zhì
send, deliver
Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 至 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t<r>i[t]-s | trijH | zhì | (cause to arrive): transmit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 50.2162% of movies
879th most common character in movies
524th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+81F4 |
Shuowen | “致,送詣也。从夂,从至。” |
Sources
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