shòu
receive
Depicts a boat (舟) being passed from one hand (爫) to another hand (又). 舟 also served as phonetic, but it was later abbreviated.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
shòu
receive, accept, get; bear, stand; to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker)
Most common words with 受
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to receive | ||
to accept | ||
to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc) | ||
to enjoy | ||
to sense |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]uʔ | dzyuwX | shòu | receive |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 96.4120% of movies
214th most common character in movies
238th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+53D7 |
Shuowen | “受，相付也。从，舟省聲。” |
Sources
裘錫圭 "Chinese Writing" p.189
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