zhì

comb

A wooden  comb  also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

節 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jiéjiē

  

holiday

Evolution

櫛 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
櫛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
櫛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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zhì

comb out; weed out, eliminate; comb; to comb; to weed out; to eliminate; Taiwan pr. [jié]

Most common words with 櫛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鳞次栉比

row upon row

comb

栉风沐雨

fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather

栉比

lined up close (like teeth of a comb)

沐雨栉风

to work unceasingly regardless of the weather (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4647th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+6ADB

Shuowen

“櫛,梳比之總名也。从木,節聲。”


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