zhīzhí

grain ready for grinding

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

grain

直 sound component

  Sound component

zhí

  

straight

Evolution

稙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
稙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
稙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhī

grain ready for grinding

 

zhí

early-planted crop

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*trək

trik

zhí

earliest-sown grain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9421st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7A19

Shuowen

“稙,早穜也。从禾,直聲。《詩》曰:‘稙稚尗麥’。”


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