kuò
include, enclose
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 𠯑 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 括
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to comprise | ||
to summarize | ||
sphincter | ||
to include | ||
to enclose |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 28.0314% of movies
1367th most common character in movies
850th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+62EC |
Shuowen | “,絜也。从手,聲。” |
Sources
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