zhì

throw

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

郑 sound component

  Sound component

zhèng

  

state in today's Henan

Evolution

掷 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
掷 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zhì

throw (down), hurl, cast, fling; to toss; to throw dice; Taiwan pr. [zhí]

Most common words with 掷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to toss

投掷

to hurl

孤注一掷

to stake all on one throw

一掷千金

extravagant

掷地有声

to have substance

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0434% of movies

2732nd most common character in movies

2614th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+63B7


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