Chinese Character Wiki
局

jú

bureau

Original meaning: 

bent, curved

Phonosemantic compound. 尸 represents the meaning and 句 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bent, curved". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
尸 meaning component

尸  Meaning component

shī

  

sitting person

Depicts a person bending over.

句 sound component

句  Sound component

jù, gōu

  

sentence

Evolution

局 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
局 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
局 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
局 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
局 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

局  

jú

bureau, office; circumstance; office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc

局 (侷) 

jú

narrow

Most common words with 局
Freq.
Word
Meaning

局

office

结局

conclusion

局长

bureau chief

局面

aspect

出局

to eliminate

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

侷 鋦 锔 焗

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-kʰ(r)ok

gjowk

jú

bent, curved

*[g](r)ok

gjowk

jú

department


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 58.7698% of movies

523rd most common character in movies

483rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5C40

Shuowen

“局，促也。从口在尺下，復局之。一曰博所以行棊。象形。”


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