zhì

(dhole), beast

Pictograph of a dhole, a type of animal native to Asia.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (3 of 12 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdreaX[d]ˤreʔ to crouch (before catching prey)
drjeX[d]reʔ bug, wug

說文解字

《說文》:“豸,獸長脊,行豸豸然,欲有所司殺形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.737-738Wikipedia
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica