Dong Chinese dictionary

wú

one of warring states

Pictograph of a person (大) standing up, yelling with an open mouth (口).

Components

口 Iconic component

kǒu

mouth

大 Iconic component

dà, dài

big

Depicts a person standing up.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 大 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

wú

one of warring states; surname

Wú

surname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai; name of states in Southern China at different historical periods

Most common words with 吳

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	吴	surname Wu
	吴邦国	Wu Bangguo (1941-), PRC electrical engineer and politician, polituro member from 2002
	吴仪	Wu Yi (1938-), one of four vice-premiers of the PRC State Council
	吴镇宇	Francis Ng Chun-Yu (1961-), Hong Kong actor
	东吴	Eastern Wu (222-280)

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (2 verified)

Sources