This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

To lift 扌 up high 臺; 臺 also provides the pronunciation

  • to raise, to lift, to carry tái
    • hand shǒu
    • platform; unit; term of address tái
      • lucky, propitious, good
        • scholar, gentleman; soldier shì
        • mouth; entrance, gate, opening kǒu
      • reach, arrive; very, extremely zhì
        • soil, earth; items made of earth

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