jī
ascend
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 齊 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤəj | tsej | jī | ascend |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4014th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8E8B |
Shuowen | “躋,登也。从足,齊聲。《商書》曰:‘予顛躋。’” |
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