zhí

grow, reproduce

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
歹 meaning component

  Meaning component

dǎi

  

evil, bad

直 sound component

  Sound component

zhí

  

straight

Evolution

殖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhí

breed, spawn; increase; prosper; to grow; to reproduce

Most common words with 殖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

繁殖

to breed

养殖

to cultivate

殖民地

colony

生殖

to reproduce

殖民

colony

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-tək

dzyik

zhí

grow, flourish (v.)

*m-tək

dzyik

zhí

plant (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 5.3340% of movies

2341st most common character in movies

1438th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6B96

Shuowen

“殖,脂膏久,殖也。从歺,直聲。”


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