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迹

jī, jì

footprint, trace

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 亦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 跡.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

亦 sound component

亦  Sound component

yì

  

also

Evolution

迹 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

迹 (跡) 

jī

search, track, trace

迹 (跡) 

jì

footprint; mark; trace; vestige; sign; indication; Taiwan pr. [jī]

迹  

jì

variant of 跡|迹[jì]

Most common words with 迹
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

9

Traditional

跡

Unicode

U+8FF9

Shuowen

“迹，步處也。从辵，亦聲。蹟，或从足、責。，籀文迹从朿。”


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