indulge oneself

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

次 sound component

  Sound component

  

second, next

Evolution

恣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

indulge oneself, unrestrained; to abandon restraint; to do as one pleases; comfortable (dialect)

Most common words with 恣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恣意

unbridled

to abandon restraint

恣意妄为

to behave unscrupulously

恣肆

unrestrained

恣情

wanton or willful

Component uses

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tsi[t]-s

tsijH

unrestrained, license


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3968th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6063

Shuowen

“恣,縱也。从心,次聲。”


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