zhǐ
embroidery
Depicts an embroidered pattern usually found on clothing. Original form of 黼.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tr[i]jʔ | trijX | zhǐ | embroidery |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6783rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+9EF9 |
Shuowen | “黹，箴縷所紩衣。从，丵省。” |
Sources
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