Chinese Character Wiki

尻

kāo

end of spine

Components
尸 meaning component

尸  Meaning component

shī

  

sitting person

body

九 unknown component

九  Unknown component

jiǔ

  

nine

Evolution

尻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尻 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
尻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尻  

kāo

end of spine; buttocks, sacrum; coccyx; tailbone at end of spine; rear joint of meat animal

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰˤu

khaw

kāo

rump


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6155th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+5C3B

Shuowen

“尻，也。从尸，九聲。”


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