lǚ
frequently
Phonosemantic compound. 尸 represents the meaning and 婁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 屢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
repeatedly | ||
repeatedly | ||
repeatedly | ||
well-tried | ||
a common occurrence (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]o(ʔ)-s | ljuH | lǚ | frequently |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0892% of movies
3324th most common character in movies
2450th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5C62 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“屢，數也。按今之婁字本是屢空字，此字後人所加，从尸未詳。” |
Sources
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