guī, kuǐ
great
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 鬼 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3455% of movies
3236th most common character in movies
3946th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5080 |
Shuowen | “傀，偉也。从人，鬼聲。《周禮》曰：‘大傀異。’，傀或从玉，褢聲。” |
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