挤挤插插
jǐ​jǐ​chā​chā

crowded

挤 jǐ crowd Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 齐 represents the sound. Simplified form of 擠.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

齐
齐 Sound component
qí even

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

插 chā insert

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 臿 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

臿
臿 SoundMeaning component
chā to separate the grain from the husk

Depicts using a pestle (午) to grind grain to be separated from its husk in a mortar (臼).

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsrheapmə-[tsʰ]<r>op insert

說文解字

《說文》：“插，刺肉也。从手，从臿。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫Wenlin Dictionaries
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

擠 jǐ crowd Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 齊 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

齊
齊 Sound component
qí even, uniform

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsliːl
ʔsliːls

說文解字

《說文》：“擠，排也。从手，齊聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)