zhì
leech
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 至 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.4165% of movies
3361st most common character in movies
4257th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+86ED |
Shuowen | “蛭，蟣也。从虫，至聲。” |
Sources
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