zhuō, zhuó
profound
Original meaning:
tall
Pictograph of a person standing erect with something above the head, based on the original meaning "tall". The meaning later shifted to "outstanding" and "profound".
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 卓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
outstanding | ||
surname Zhuo | ||
Android (operating system for mobile devices) | ||
highly effective | ||
outstanding |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤrawk | traewk | zhuō | high; splendid |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2677% of movies
2429th most common character in movies
1942nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5353 |
Shuowen | “，高也。早匕為，匕卪為卬，皆同義。卓，古文。” |
Sources
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