zǐ
purple
Phonosemantic compound. 糸 represents the meaning and 此 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 紫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
purple | ||
purple | ||
ultraviolet ray | ||
wisteria | ||
violet (botany) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 7.6406% of movies
2129th most common character in movies
1646th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7D2B |
Shuowen | “紫，帛青赤色。从糸，此聲。” |
Sources
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