Chinese Character Wiki
仄

zè

slanting

厂 represents a slanted cliff and 夨 represents a person with a tilted head, thus conveying the meaning "slanting".

Components
厂 meaning component

厂  Meaning component

hǎn, chǎng

  

cliff, (roof)

夨 meaning component

夨  Meaning component

zè

  

to tilt the head

Modern form looks like 人.

Evolution

仄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仄 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
仄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仄  

zè

slanting, oblique; oblique tones; to tilt; narrow; uneasy; oblique tones (in Chinese poetry)

Most common words with 仄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

仄

to tilt

平仄

level and oblique tones (technical term for Classical Chinese rhythmic poetry)

仄声

oblique tone

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

昃

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]rək

tsrik

zè

slanting, oblique


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4282nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4EC4

Shuowen

“仄，側傾也。从人，在厂下。，籀文从夨，夨亦聲。”


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