ascend

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

齊 sound component

  Sound component

  

even, uniform

Evolution

躋 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
躋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
躋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
躋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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ascend, go up, rise; to go up (esp. in rank); to rise; to ascend

Most common words with 躋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

跻身

to rise (in society)

to rise

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤəj

tsej

ascend


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4014th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+8E8B

Shuowen

“躋,登也。从足,齊聲。《商書》曰:‘予顛躋。’”


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