Chinese Character Wiki

莿

cì

thorn

A plant 艹 that pricks 刺; 刺 also provides the pronunciation

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

刺 sound,meaning component

刺  Sound Meaning component

cì, cī

  

stab

Evolution

莿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

莿  

cì

thorn; Urtica thunbergiana

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7973rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+83BF

Shuowen

“莿，茦也。从艸，刺聲。”


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