cí
words
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 司 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 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 |
*sə.lə | zi | cí | utterance |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 46.4841% of movies
815th most common character in movies
959th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A5E |
Shuowen | “詞,意內而言外也。从司,从言。” |
Sources
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