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Pictograph of a carpenter's square, a tool for measuring right angles. Based on the original meaning "carpenter's square", now written as 矩. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 巨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
huge | ||
huge | ||
giant | ||
(astronomy) giant star | ||
Cancer (constellation and sign of the zodiac) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 28.0955% of movies
1239th most common character in movies
913th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+5DE8 |
Shuowen | “巨,規巨也。从工,象手持之。榘,巨或从木、矢,矢者,其中正也。,古文巨。” |
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