zǐ
to stop
Depicts a horizontal object stopping a plant from growing.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+20094 |
Shuowen | “，止也。从，盛而一橫止之也。” |
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