zhuó
chop, carve wood
Phonosemantic compound. 𠁁 represents the sound and 斤 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.tˤrok | traewk | zhuó | chop, cleave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4677th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+65B2 |
Shuowen | “斲,斫也。从斤、。,斲或从畫从丮。” |
Sources
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