Chinese Character Wiki
出

chū

go out

Pictograph of a foot (止) exiting a cave (凵).

Components
止 iconic component

止  Iconic component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

Depicts a foot.

凵 iconic component

凵  Iconic component

qiǎn, kǎn

  

enclosure

Depicts a cave.

Evolution

出 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
出 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
出 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
出 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
出 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

出  

chū

go out, send out; stand; produce; to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

出 (齣) 

chū

act; stanza; time, occasion; variant of 出[chū] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

Most common words with 出
Freq.
Word
Meaning

出

to go out

出来

to come out

出现

to appear

出去

to go out

提出

to propose

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (2 verified)

卖 賣 茁 粜

Sound component in 9 characters (1 verified)

础 屈 拙 咄 黜 茁 絀 绌 诎

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

祟

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t-kʰut

tsyhwit

chū

go or come out

*t-kʰut-s

tsyhwijH

chuì

bring or take out


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9359% of movies

60th most common character in movies

28th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Simplified

出

Traditional

出齣

Unicode

U+51FA

Shuowen

“出，進也。象艸木益滋上出達也。”


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