zhī
sesame
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 之 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhī
sesame; a purplish or brown mushroom thought to have miraculous powers; 'a divine and felicitous plant' (Karlgren); Zoysia pungens
Most common words with 芝
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Chicago, USA | ||
Zoysia pungens | ||
sesame (seed) | ||
cheese (loanword) | ||
Toshiba, Japanese electronics company |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.8190% of movies
1769th most common character in movies
2150th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+829D |
Shuowen | “芝，神艸也。从艸，从之。” |
Sources
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