chǐ

strip

Components

Meaning component
clothes

clothes

Sound component
sī, xī, tí an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰɯʔ
l̥ʰeʔ
l'e
l'eʔ

說文解字

奪衣也。从衣虒聲。讀若池。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica