㡿
chì

to scold

Original meaning: develop new land

Archaic variant of 斥. Phonosemantic compond: 广 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound. Originally a variant form of 宅, based on the original meaning "to develop new land". The 乇 component was confused with the visually similar 屰.

Components

广
广 Meaning component
guǎng roof
乇
乇 Sound component
tuō, zhé to depend on

屰 is the corruption of the original sound component 乇.

Change in sound
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 乇 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsyhekt-qʰAk salty soil

說文解字

《說文》：“，郤屋也。从广，屰聲。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.724-725
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)