strong

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

吉 sound component

  Sound component

  

lucky

Evolution

佶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

strong, robust; exact, correct; difficult to pronounce

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ri[t]

git

strong, healthy (horse)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5486th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+4F76

Shuowen

“佶,正也。从人,吉聲。”


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