shī, tā
a short spear
Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 它 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鉈.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Simplified script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
6491st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+94CA |
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