noun #29,958

Meanings

  1. 1 merit; achievement; accomplishment

Examples

Tā de chéngjì hěn hǎo.
His grades are very good.
Zhè shì dàjiā de gōngjì.
This is everyone's achievement.

Tips

usage
is mainly found in 成绩 (chéngjì, grades/results/achievement), 业绩 (yèjì, performance/business results), 功绩 (gōngjì, merit/contribution), 绩效 (jìxiào, performance/effectiveness).

Components

radical
silk; thread
Silk radical on the left, the indexing component and a contracted form of . The original meaning of was 'to spin hemp into thread' — patient, accumulating work — which then expanded to 'achievement'. The ties it to other textile chars: weave, compile, spin.
phonetic
demand; duty
Right side zé supplies the sound with vowel shift zé → jì (an older reading was closer). Pedagogically it also rhymes thematically: a is what is demanded of you, and is the accumulated result. Same phonetic shape appears in debt and stain.

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