zhí

soil with large clay content

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
zhí straight

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzyik[d]əkclay
Zhengzhangtʰjɯɡs
djɯɡ

說文解字

黏土也。从土直聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica