shū
book
Phonosemantic compound. 聿 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 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-ta | syo | shū | write |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 58.2412% of movies
503rd most common character in movies
282nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+66F8 |
Shuowen | “書,箸也。从聿,者聲。” |
Sources
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