Chinese Character Wiki
冓

gòu

a secluded place

Original meaning: 

meet unexpectedly

Depicts two fish facing each other. Based on the original meaning "meet unexpectedly", now written as 遘.

Evolution

冓 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
冓 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
冓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
冓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

冓  

gòu

a secluded place; secret cabinet; inner rooms of palace; ten billions

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

媾 耩

Sound component in 9 characters (5 verified)

構 講 購 溝 遘 篝 媾 鞲 觏

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤ(r)o-s

kuwH

gòu

中冓 inner chamber


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5193

Shuowen

“冓，交積材也。象對交之形。”


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