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授

shòu

give to

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 受 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

受 sound component

受  Sound component

shòu

  

receive

Evolution

授 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
授 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
授 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
授 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

授  

shòu

give to, transmit; confer; to teach; to instruct; to award; to give

Most common words with 授
Freq.
Word
Meaning

教授

professor

授权

to authorize

授予

to award

授

to teach

传授

to impart

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]uʔ-s

dzyuwH

shòu

give; hand over


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 18.9973% of movies

1281st most common character in movies

968th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6388

Shuowen

“授，予也。从手，从受，受亦聲。”


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