zhí

grain ready for grinding

Components

Meaning component
grain stalk

grain

Sound component
zhí straight

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttriktrəkearliest-sown grain
Zhengzhangtɯɡ

說文解字

早穜也。从禾直聲。《詩》曰:“稙稚尗麥。”

Sources

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