Chinese Character Wiki

朽

xiǔ

decayed

The wood of a dying 丂 tree 木

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

丂 meaning component

丂  Meaning component

kǎo

  

axe handle

Evolution

朽 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
朽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
朽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
朽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

朽  

xiǔ

decayed, rotten; rot, decay; rotten

Most common words with 朽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

腐朽

rotten

不朽

immortal

朽

rotten

永垂不朽

eternal glory

朽木

rotten wood

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ(r)uʔ

xjuwX

xiǔ

rot, decay


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0434% of movies

2805th most common character in movies

2544th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+673D

Shuowen

“，腐也。从歺，丂聲。朽，或从木。”


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