chì

order

Components

Sound component
shí eat
Meaning component
lì, li power

strength

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

order Traditional

Components

Sound component
eat
Meaning component
lì, li power

strength

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰɯɡ

說文解字

致堅也。从人从力,食聲。讀若敕。

Sources

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