祉
zhǐ

happiness

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

Components

礻
礻 Meaning component
shì show

礻 is a component form of 示.

止
止 Sound component
zhǐ (foot), stop

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttrhiX[tʰ]rəʔblessings
Zhengzhangkʰlɯʔ

說文解字

福也。从示止聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)