gòu
form, structure
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 勾 represents the sound. Simplified form of 構.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 构
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
mechanism | ||
structure | ||
to form | ||
to make up | ||
to construct (sth abstract) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 25.3564% of movies
1345th most common character in movies
511th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6784 |
Sources
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