zéi
thief
Phonosemantic compound. 戎 represents the meaning and 贝 represents the sound. Simplified form of 賊.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
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 | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D3C |
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