績 - Dong Chinese dictionary

jī, jì

spin (thread)

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 責 represents the sound.

Components

糹 Meaning component

sī, mì

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

責 Sound component

zé

responsibility

績 and 責 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.績 /*[ts]ˤek/, /*[ts]ˤek/
責 /*s-tˤrek/, /*s-tˤrek/, /*s-tˤrek-s/

Evolution

Bronze script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

绩 (績)

jī

spin; achievements

绩 (績)

jì

to spin (hemp etc); merit; accomplishment; Taiwan pr. [jī]

Most common words with 績

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	成绩	achievement
	业绩	achievement
	战绩	military successes
	成绩单	school report or transcript
	绩效	performance

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ts]ˤek	tsek	jī	twist, spin
*[ts]ˤek	tsek	jì	achieve; achievement

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.4688% of movies

1876th most common character in movies

1547th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	17
Simplified	绩
Unicode	U+7E3E
Shuowen	“績，緝也。从糸，責聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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