chóu, qiú
enemy
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)u | gjuw | qiú | mate (*n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.4046% of movies
1480th most common character in movies
1536th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+4EC7 |
Shuowen | “仇,讎也。从人,九聲。” |
Sources
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