Character Details
| straight; directly; vertical; upright, just; straightforward | Ascii: 24110 | w395 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 直 | zhí | djeuh | 2 | 十 (ten) + 目 (eye) → straight | 直 link | ||||||
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Confirmation from ten eyes will make you certain that you drew a straight line on the floor. | ||||||||||
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| - Go straight | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 109 - 疋 | pǐ | dish | bolt of cloth | cloth roll | 疋 疏 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 十 (ten) + 目 (eye) → straight | 十 (semantic origin) | 目 (phonetic origin) | ancient form had eye + line | ||||||||