HSK4
zhì
nature, substance
pledge, pawn
Simplified form of 質. Phonosemantic compound. 斦 represents the sound and 贝 represents the meaning.
斤 Simplified component
jīn
axe
Shorthand for the phonetic 斦 component in the traditional character 質.
贝 Meaning component
bèi
sea shell
In ancient China shells were used as currency.
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Traditional script
Simplified 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)
𬃊 踬
Make Me a Hanzi
Unicode
Dong Chinese
CC-CEDICT
SUBTLEX-CH
MTSU Chinese text computing
季旭昇《說文新證》p. 522