wooden shoes

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
履 meaning,remnant component

  Meaning Remnant component

  

to tread on, shoes

支 sound component

  Sound component

zhī

  

support, hold up

Evolution

屐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
屐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wooden shoes, clogs; clogs

Most common words with 屐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

木屐

wooden clogs

clogs

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.[g]rek

gjaek

wooden sandal


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4991st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5C50

Shuowen

“屐,屩也。从履省,支聲。”


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