jiù
stable
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷu(ʔ)-s | kjuwH | jiù | stable (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0892% of movies
3089th most common character in movies
4181st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5EC4 |
Shuowen | “廄,馬舍也。从广,聲。《周禮》曰:‘馬有二百十四匹為廄,廄有僕夫。’,古文从九。” |
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