chí

porch

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
rhinoceros

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangl'il
Unicodedjhi

說文解字

涂地也。从土犀聲。《禮》:“天子赤墀。”

Sources

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