zhǐ
finger
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 旨 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhǐ
finger, toe; point, indicate; finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.kijʔ | tsyijX | zhǐ | finger; point |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 85.0713% of movies
331st most common character in movies
261st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6307 |
Shuowen | “指，手指也。从手，旨聲。” |
Sources
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