Chinese Character Wiki

懼

jù

fear

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

heart

瞿 sound component

瞿  Sound component

qú

  

surname

Evolution

懼 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
懼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
懼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
懼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

惧 (懼) 

jù

fear, be afraid of, dread; to fear

Most common words with 懼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恐惧

fear

畏惧

to fear

惧

to fear

惧怕

to be afraid

恐惧症

phobia

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ʷ(r)a(k)-s

gjuH

jù

fear (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 21.3840% of movies

1412th most common character in movies

1616th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

惧

Unicode

U+61FC

Shuowen

“懼，恐也。从心，瞿聲。愳，古文。”


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