chū
go out
Pictograph of a foot (止) exiting a cave (凵).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
chū
go out, send out; stand; produce; to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
chū
act; stanza; time, occasion; variant of 出[chū] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
Component uses
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Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.501-502