繫
jìxì HSK3

to tie

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Phonosemantic compound. 毄 represents the sound and 糸 represents the meaning.

Components

毄
毄 Sound component
to hit against
糸
糸 Meaning component
mì, sī silk

thread

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkejHCə.kˤe-s tie (v.)
hejHm-kˤek-s attach; suspend

說文解字

《說文》：“繫，繫也。一曰惡絮。从糸，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)