zhǐ
paper
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 氏 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.teʔ | tsyeX | zhǐ | paper |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 39.8206% of movies
968th most common character in movies
1020th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D19 |
Shuowen | “紙,絮一笘也。从糸,氏聲。” |
Sources
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