址
zhǐ HSK4

site, location

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 止 represents the sound.

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth
止
止 Sound component
zhǐ (foot), stop

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkjɯʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“阯，基也。从，止聲。址，阯或从土。”

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)