緇
zī

black silk

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsri[ts]rəblack
Zhengzhangʔsrɯ

說文解字

帛黑色。从糸甾聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

缁 zī black silk Simplified

Black 甾 silk 纟; 甾 also provides the pronunciation

Components

纟
纟 Meaning component
mì silk
甾
甾 SoundMeaning component
zāi, zī container

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode