suǒ
place
Origin unclear. 戶 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-qʰ<r>aʔ | srjoX | suǒ | place (n.); that which |
*qʰaʔ | xuX | suǒ | 所所 = 許許 = 滸滸 sound of hewing wood |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 99.8238% of movies
80th most common character in movies
54th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6240 |
Shuowen | “所,伐木聲也。从斤,戶聲。” |
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