Chinese Character Wiki
級

jí

level

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 及 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

及 sound component

及  Sound component

jí

  

extend

Evolution

級 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
級 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
級 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

级 (級) 

jí

level, rank, class; grade; level; rank; step (of stairs); CL:個|个[gè]; classifier: step, level

Most common words with 級
Freq.
Word
Meaning

级

level

超级

super-

高级

high level

年级

grade

升级

to be promoted

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)əp

kip

jí

degree, grade


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 59.7950% of movies

646th most common character in movies

415th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

级

Unicode

U+7D1A

Shuowen

“級，絲次弟也。从糸，及聲。”


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