chí

an islet

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
dī, dǐ, zhī bottom

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdrij[d]rijislet
Zhengzhangtiːlʔ
tjelʔ
dil

說文解字

小渚也。《詩》曰:“宛在水中坻。”从土氐聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica