tí
topic
Original meaning:
forehead
Simplified form of 題. Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "forehead". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 95.4349% of movies
220th most common character in movies
218th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9898 |
Sources
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