xì
bind
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 系 represents the sound.
Oracle script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤek-s | kejH | xì | tie (v.) |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 90.9018% of movies
268th most common character in movies
216th most common character in books
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+4FC2 |
Shuowen | “係,絜束也。从人,从系,系亦聲。” |