雜 - Dong Chinese dictionary

zá

mixed, various

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 集 represents the sound.

Components

衣 Meaning component

yī, yì

clothes

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 衣 than it was in ancient scripts.

集 Sound component

jí

gather, collect

雜 and 集 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.雜 /*[dz]ˤ[u]p/
集 /*[dz][u]p/

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 集 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

杂 (雜)

zá

mixed, blended; mix, mingle; mixed; miscellaneous; various; to mix

Most common words with 雜

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	杂志	magazine
	复杂	complicated
	杂种	hybrid
	杂	mixed
	杂交	to hybridize

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[dz]ˤ[u]p	dzop	zá	mixed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 48.9028% of movies

813th most common character in movies

853rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	18
Simplified	杂
Unicode	U+96DC
Shuowen	“雜，五彩相會。从衣，集聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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