jī
strike
Phonosemantic compound. 毄 represents the sound and 手 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤik | kek | jī | strike (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 67.7078% of movies
412th most common character in movies
395th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+64CA |
Shuowen | “擊,攴也。从手,聲。” |
Sources
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