accumulate, store up

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

責 sound component

  Sound component

  

responsibility

Evolution

積 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
積 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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accumulate, store up, amass; to amass; to accumulate; to store; measured quantity (such as area of volume); product (the result of multiplication); to integrate (math.); to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.); old; long-standing

Most common words with 積
Freq.
Word
Meaning

积极

active

面积

surface area

to amass

积累

to accumulate

积蓄

to save