sù
accuse
Variant of 訴. Phonosemantic compound. 朔 represents the sound and 心 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-ŋˤak-s | suH | sù | complain, accuse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 98.5103% of movies
127th most common character in movies
595th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+612C |
Shuowen | “訴，告也。从言，厈省聲。《論語》曰：‘訴子路於季孫。’，訴或从言、朔。愬，訴或从朔、心。” |
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