Chinese Character Wiki
濟

jì, jǐ

help, aid, cross a river

Original meaning: 

[name of river]

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 齊 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

齊 sound component

齊  Sound component

qí

  

even, uniform

Evolution

濟 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
濟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
濟 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
濟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

济 (濟) 

jì

to help, aid, relieve; to ferry, cross; to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help

济 (濟) 

Jǐ

used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Jǐ​Shuǐ]; surname Ji

济 (濟) 

jǐ

only used in 濟濟|济济[jǐ​jǐ]

Most common words with 濟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

经济

economy

救济

emergency relief

济

to cross a river

市场经济

market economy

无济于事

to no avail

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤ[i]jʔ

tsejX

jǐ

numerous

*[ts]ˤəjʔ

tsejX

jǐ

stately

*[ts]ˤəjʔ

tsejX

jǐ

[river name]

*[ts]ˤ[i]j(ʔ)-s

tsejH

jì

cross a stream; rescue

*[ts]ˤ[i]j(ʔ)-s

tsejH

jì

stop


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.0179% of movies

1603rd most common character in movies

360th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

济

Unicode

U+6FDF

Shuowen

“濟，水。出常山房子贊皇山，東入泜。从水，齊聲。”


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