jiù
long and curved
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 求 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 71.8725% of movies
352nd most common character in movies
872nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6344 |
Shuowen | “捄,盛土於梩中也。一曰擾也。《詩》曰:‘捄之陾陾。’从手,求聲。” |
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