zhí

confine

Evolution

縶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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zhí

confine, tie up; imprison, shackle; to connect; to tie up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t<r>ip

trip

zhí

rope, tether; bind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6794th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E36

Shuowen

“馽,絆馬也。从馬,口其足。《春秋傳》曰:‘韓厥執馽前。’讀若輒。縶,馽或从糸,執聲。”


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