Chinese Character Wiki
蹟

jī, jì

trace, footprint

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 責 represents the sound.

Components
足 meaning component

足  Meaning component

zú, jù

  

foot

責 sound component

責  Sound component

zé

  

responsibility

Evolution

蹟 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
蹟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蹟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蹟  

jī

trace, tracks; footprints

迹 (蹟) 

jì

variant of 跡|迹[jì]

Most common words with 蹟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奇迹

miracle

痕迹

vestige

迹象

mark

血迹

bloodstain

事迹

deed

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ek

tsjek

jì

footprint, traces


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 40.1089% of movies

941st most common character in movies

1098th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+8E5F

Shuowen

“迹，步處也。从辵，亦聲。蹟，或从足、責。，籀文迹从朿。”


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