jiē
street
Phonosemantic compound. 行 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤre | kea | jiē | road-crossing |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 49.8638% of movies
710th most common character in movies
1101st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8857 |
Shuowen | “街，四通道也。从行，圭聲。” |
Sources
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