chú
kitchen
Simplified form of 廚. Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 尌 represents the sound.
Components
广 Meaning Simplified component
yǎn, guǎng
roof
尌 Sound Simplified component
shù
standing (something) up
Evolution

Seal script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 22.7775% of movies
1279th most common character in movies
2132nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+53A8 |
Sources
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