Chinese Character Wiki
這

zhè, yàn

this

Original meaning: 

to meet

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 言 represents the sound. The character originally meant "to meet" and had a pronunciation corresponding to modern Mandarin yàn. 這 later acquired an unrelated pronunciation and meaning through confusion with 遮.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

言 sound component

言  Sound component

yán

  

speech

Based on archaic pronunciation yàn.

Definitions

这 (這) 

zhè

this, the, here; this; these; (commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)

这 (這) 

yàn

(archaic) to meet

Most common words with 這
Freq.
Word
Meaning

这

this

这个

this

这样

so

这些

these

这么

so much

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 100.0000% of movies

8th most common character in movies

11th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

这

Unicode

U+9019


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