zéi
thief
Phonosemantic compound. 戎 represents the meaning and 貝 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.dzˤək | dzok | zéi | injure; murderer, bandit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.0021% of movies
1903rd most common character in movies
2001st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CCA |
Shuowen | “,敗也。从戈,則聲。” |
Sources
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