脊
jǐ HSK7

spine

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approved by Prismcool · Sep 1, 2023, 03:45 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Sep 1, 2023, 03:45 PM

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Originally was a pictograph of a fish spine. Later changed into a phonosemantic compound with ⺼ representing the meaning and 朿 representing the sound.

Components

朿
朿 Sound component
Change in sound
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 朿 than it was in ancient scripts.
⺼
⺼ Meaning component

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsjek[ts]ek spine, backbone

說文解字

《說文》：“脊，背呂也。从，从肉。”

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)