play

Original meaning: 

military troops outside the main group

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "military troops outside the main group". The meaning later shifted to "sport" and "play".

Components
又 simplified component

  Simplified component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Shorthand for the component in the traditional character .

戈 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

spear

Evolution

戏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
戏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
戏 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
戏 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
戏 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

theatrical play, show; trick; drama; play; show; CL:|[chū],|[chǎng],|[tái]

() 

variant of |[xì]

Most common words with 戏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

游戏

game

trick

戏剧

drama

演戏

to perform

把戏

acrobatics

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 59.8590% of movies

587th most common character in movies

1033rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+620F


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