Chinese Character Wiki

藉

jí, jiè

mat

A plow 耤 is the means used to grow crops 艹

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

耤 meaning component

耤  Meaning component

jí

  

plough

Evolution

藉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
藉 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
藉 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
藉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

藉  

jí

mat, pad; rely on; pretext; to insult; to walk all over (sb)

藉  

Jí

surname Ji

藉  

jiè

sleeping mat; to placate

借 (藉) 

jiè

variant of 借[jiè]

Most common words with 藉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

藉

to insult

慰藉

to console

狼藉

in a mess

声名狼藉

to have a bad reputation

藉口

excuse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]Ak

dzjek

jí

tribute (n.)

*[dz]Ak-s

dzjaeH

jiè

straw bedding; (base oneself on:) depend on

*[dz]Ak-s

dzjaeH

jiè

loan, borrow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.7482% of movies

2686th most common character in movies

2615th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+85C9

Shuowen

“藉，祭藉也。一曰：艸不編，狼藉。从艸，耤聲。”


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