gòu
marry
To know a woman's 女 secret 冓; 冓 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤ(r)o-s | kuwH | gòu | 2nd marriage |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4524th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+5ABE |
Shuowen | “媾，重也。从女，冓聲。《易》曰：‘匪寇媾。’” |
Sources
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