Chinese Character Wiki
戠

zhī, zhí

to gather

Original meaning: 

wooden stake

Depicts a wooden stake sticking in the ground.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a wooden stake sticking in the ground. The modern form looks the same as 音, but is not originally related.

戈 meaning component

戈  Meaning component

gē

  

spear

Evolution

戠 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
戠 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
戠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
戠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

戠  

zhī

a sword; potter's clay; to gather

戠  

zhí

old variant of 埴[zhí]

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (4 verified)

識 織 職 樴 幟 熾

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tək

tsyik

shì

adhere (?)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6220

Shuowen

“戠，闕。从戈，从音。”


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