jù
tool
Depicts two hands (廾) handling a cooking pot (鼎).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jù
tool, implement; draw up, write; tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)o-s | gjuH | jù | arrange, provide |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 56.7035% of movies
734th most common character in movies
391st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5177 |
Shuowen | “具,共置也。从廾,从貝省。古以貝為貨。” |
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