hú
wooden bow
Phonosemantic compound. 弓 represents the meaning and 瓜 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷˤa | hu | hú | bow; bend, curved |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2174% of movies
3307th most common character in movies
3062nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5F27 |
Shuowen | “弧，木弓也。从弓，瓜聲。一曰往體寡、來體多曰弧。” |
Sources
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