gū
father's sister
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 古 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
gū
father's sister; husband's mother; paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤa | ku | gū | father's sister |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 34.3264% of movies
929th most common character in movies
994th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+59D1 |
Shuowen | “姑，夫母也。从女，古聲。” |
Sources
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