jù
all
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 具 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 俱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword) | ||
entirely | ||
with everything needed available | ||
to increase steadily | ||
inherent |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)o | kju | jù | all, together |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 20.8393% of movies
1328th most common character in movies
1909th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+4FF1 |
Shuowen | “俱,偕也。从人,具聲。” |
Sources
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