Chinese Character Wiki

荑

tí, yí

sprouts

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

weed

夷 sound component

夷  Sound component

yí

  

ancient barbarian tribes

Evolution

荑 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
荑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荑 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
荑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

荑  

tí

sprouts; tares; (grass)

荑  

yí

to weed

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤəj

dej

tí

young shoot


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6285th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8351

Shuowen

“荑，艸也。从艸，夷聲。”


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