耆
qí

man of sixty

Phonosemantic compound. 老 represents the meaning and 旨 represents the sound.

Components

老
老 Meaning component
lǎo old
旨
旨 Sound component
zhǐ purpose
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 4 verified)

鳍嗜蓍鰭

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgij[g]rij old

說文解字

《說文》：“耆，老也。从老省，旨聲。”

Sources

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