jì
record
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 己 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.k(r)ə(ʔ)-s | kiH | jì | remember; record (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 95.6431% of movies
212th most common character in movies
306th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A18 |
Shuowen | “記,疏也。从言,己聲。” |
Sources
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