zhǐ, zhī
only
Depicts a hand (又) holding a bird (隹). 隻 is used as a measure word for birds, as well as some other animals and objects.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tek | tsyek | zhī | single |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.9199% of movies
71st most common character in movies
97th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+96BB |
Shuowen | “隻,鳥一枚也。从又持隹。持一隹曰隻,二隹曰雙。” |
Sources
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