jī, qī
to sew in close stitches
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 緝
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to list as wanted | ||
drug enforcement | ||
wanted criminal | ||
to seize | ||
to arrest |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ][ə]p | tship | qī | hem (a garment) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.2081% of movies
2185th most common character in movies
3165th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DDD |
Shuowen | “緝，績也。从糸，咠聲。” |
Sources
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