jí
extreme
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 亟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)ək | gik | jí | extreme |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 65.8017% of movies
581st most common character in movies
363rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6975 |
Shuowen | “極，棟也。从木，亟聲。” |
Sources
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