draft

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

以 sound component

  Sound component

  

by means of

Evolution

拟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拟 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
拟 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
拟 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

draft; intend, plan, propose; to plan to; to draft (a plan); to imitate; to assess; to compare; pseudo-

() 

doubtful; suspicious; variant of |[nǐ]; to emulate

Most common words with 拟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

模拟

imitation

to plan to

虚拟

to imagine

拟定

to draw up

草拟

first draft