wū
house, room
Depicts a yurt (𡉉) over a room (室).
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤok (or *ʔˤok ?) | 'uwk | wū | house; roof |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 44.9303% of movies
866th most common character in movies
863rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5C4B |
Shuowen | “屋,居也。从尸,尸,所主也。一曰尸象屋形;从至,至,所至止。室、屋皆从至。,籀文屋,从厂。,古文屋。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.677-678
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