zhuī
gimlet
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0732% of movies
3314th most common character in movies
3064th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9310 |
Shuowen | “錐，銳也。从金，隹聲。” |
Sources
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