qū
steep
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 區 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
4065th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5D87 |
Shuowen | “,也。从,區聲。” |
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