cí
female
Phonosemantic compound. 隹 represents the meaning and 此 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3226% of movies
2815th most common character in movies
2382nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+96CC |
Shuowen | “雌，鳥母也。从隹，此聲。” |
Sources
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