jué

without left arm

Original meaning: 

without left arm

Depicts a child with a right arm but no left arm. Compare to (child with no right arm) and (child with no arms).

Components
子 iconic,remnant component

  Iconic Remnant component

zi

  

child

A child () without a left arm.

Evolution

孓 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
孓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
孓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jué

beautiful; see 孑孓[jié​jué]

Most common words with 孓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mosquito larva

孑孓

mosquito larva

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6370th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+5B53

Shuowen

“孓,無左臂也。从了,。象形。”


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