zhì
to place, put
Phonosemantic compound. 网 represents the meaning and 直 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 置
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
position | ||
to install | ||
hard to believe | ||
to install | ||
to set up |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*trək-s | triH | zhì | put, place; set upright |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 60.4998% of movies
687th most common character in movies
677th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7F6E |
Shuowen | “置，赦也。从网、直。” |
Sources
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