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Shuowen

This. Composed of 辶 (movement) and 音 (sound), the character originally depicted going to meet someone or welcoming a visitor—the phonetic element suggesting the exchange of words or acknowledgment upon encounter. Through centuries of use, the concrete action of meeting gradually shifted to the abstract demonstrative sense of "this" or "the one being indicated," a semantic evolution from physical encounter to linguistic pointing.

Pinyin

zhè· HSK 1