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製

zhì

manufacture

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning (manufacturing/tailoring clothes) and 制 represents the sound.

Components
制 sound component

制  Sound component

zhì

  

control

衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

Evolution

製 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
製 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
製 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

制 (製) 

zhì

make, manufacture; produce; to manufacture; to make

Most common words with 製
Freq.
Word
Meaning

控制

control

制度

institution

制造

to make

制作

to make

制

system

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tet-s

tsyejH

zhì

cut out (a garment)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 77.2225% of movies

419th most common character in movies

163rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

制

Unicode

U+88FD

Shuowen

“製，裁也。从衣，从制。”


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