zhòu
time as concept
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 由 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.5376% of movies
1834th most common character in movies
1421st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5B99 |
Shuowen | “宙，舟輿所極覆也。从宀，由聲。” |
Sources
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