HSK10+
zhì
nature, substance
pledge, pawn
Phonosemantic compound. 斦 represents the sound and 貝 represents the meaning.
斦 Sound component
chopping block
貝 Meaning component
bèi
sea shell
In ancient China shells were used as currency.
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
质 (質)
matter, material, substance; character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhí]
质量
quality
物质
matter
人质
hostage
质
nature
质疑
to call into question
Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)
櫍 躓
Academia Sinica
Make Me a Hanzi
Unicode
Baxter-Sagart
Dong Chinese
CC-CEDICT
SUBTLEX-CH
MTSU Chinese text computing
季旭昇《說文新證》p. 522