wū
wizard, shaman
Depicts some sort of object used by shamans. The exact nature of this object is unclear.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.m(r)[o] | mju | wū | magician |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.5055% of movies
1642nd most common character in movies
2189th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5DEB |
Shuowen | “巫,祝也。女能事無形,以舞降神者也。象人兩褎舞形,與工同意。古者巫咸初作巫。,古文巫。” |
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