zhī
juice
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 十 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 汁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
juice | ||
fruit juice | ||
orange juice | ||
gall | ||
to rack one's brains |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t.k][ə]p | tsyip | zhī | juice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.8807% of movies
1659th most common character in movies
2540th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+6C41 |
Shuowen | “汁，液也。从水，十聲。” |
Sources
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