black silk

Evolution

緇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
緇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
緇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

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black silk; Buddhists; dark

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]rə

tsri

black


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5299th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DC7

Shuowen

“緇,帛黑色也。从糸,甾聲。”


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