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却

què

but

Original meaning: 

retreat, withdraw

Phonosemantic compound. 卩 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound. Simplified form of 卻.

Components
去 sound component

去  Sound component

qù

  

go away

卩 meaning component

卩  Meaning component

jié

  

person kneeling

Evolution

却 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

却 (卻) 

què

still, but; decline; retreat; but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though

却 (㕁) 

què

old variant of 卻|却[què]

Most common words with 却
Freq.
Word
Meaning

却

but

冷却

to cool off

忘却

to forget

退却

to retreat

了却

to resolve

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

脚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰak

khjak

què

decline, refuse


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 74.2592% of movies

495th most common character in movies

287th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

卻

Unicode

U+5374

Shuowen

“卻，節欲也。从卪，聲。”


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