guǐ
track
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷruʔ | kwijX | guǐ | wheel ruts |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.3407% of movies
1841st most common character in movies
1883rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8ECC |
Shuowen | “軌,車徹也。从車,九聲。” |
Sources
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