jí
gather, collect
Depicts birds (隹) gathering together on top of a (木).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jí
assemble, collect together; to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz][u]p | dzip | jí | gather, collect |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 80.1538% of movies
580th most common character in movies
406th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+96C6 |
Shuowen | “雧,羣鳥在木上也。从雥,从木。集,雧或省。” |
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