skill

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

支 sound component

  Sound component

zhī

  

support, hold up

Evolution

技 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
技 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
技 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

skill, ability, talent, ingenuity; skill

Most common words with 技
Freq.
Word
Meaning

技术

technology

科技

science and technology

技巧

skill

技能

skill

skill

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]reʔ

gjeX

skill


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 39.3240% of movies

966th most common character in movies

422nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6280

Shuowen

“技,巧也。从手,支聲。”


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