chī
a mountain demon resembling a tiger
Phonosemantic compound. 鬼 represents the meaning and 离 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*r̥aj | trhje | chī | demon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4792nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+9B51 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“魑，鬼屬。从鬼，从离。离亦聲。” |
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