jiē
stairs
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 皆 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤrij | keaj | jiē | steps, stairs |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.3864% of movies
1681st most common character in movies
745th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+968E |
Shuowen | “階,陛也。从,皆聲。” |
Sources
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