zhī
fat
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 旨 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 脂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food) | ||
fat | ||
grease | ||
resin | ||
to remove fat |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kij | tsyij | zhī | fat, grease |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.8557% of movies
2164th most common character in movies
2206th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8102 |
Shuowen | “脂，戴角者脂，無角者膏。从肉，旨聲。” |
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