Chinese Character Wiki
㝡

zuì

most

Original meaning: 

gather

Old variant of 最. Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 取 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "gather". The meaning later shifted to "accumulate", "many" and "most".

Components
宀 meaning component

宀  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

取 sound component

取  Sound component

qǔ

  

take

Evolution

㝡 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
㝡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

㝡  

zuì

(a variant of 最) very; exceedingly; most, superior

最 (㝡) 

zuì

variant of 最[zuì]

Most common words with 㝡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

最

most

最后

final

最近

recently

最终

final

最好

best

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤot-s

tswajH

zuì

collect; most


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.6316% of movies

107th most common character in movies

139th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+3761


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