shòu
old age
Simplified form of 壽. The top component is a remnant of 老 (old). The origin of the bottom component is unclear.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 寿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
age | ||
life span | ||
longevity | ||
life insurance | ||
god of longevity |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 6.5513% of movies
2182nd most common character in movies
1615th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5BFF |
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