zhī
spider
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 知 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tre | trje | zhī | *tre.tro spider |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.8924% of movies
2099th most common character in movies
3043rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8718 |
Shuowen | “，鼄，蟊也。从黽，省聲。，或从虫。” |
Sources
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