zhǐ

site, location

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

止 sound component

  Sound component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

Evolution

址 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
址 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
址 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
址 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhǐ

site, location, land for house; location; site

Most common words with 址
Freq.
Word
Meaning

地址

address

住址

address

site

遗址

ruins

选址

site

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 21.9286% of movies

1425th most common character in movies

1848th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5740

Shuowen

“阯,基也。从,止聲。址,阯或从土。”


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