kū
dried out
An old 古 tree 木; 古 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʰˤa | khu | kū | withered, dried up |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.0846% of movies
2636th most common character in movies
2188th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67AF |
Shuowen | “枯，槀也。从木，古聲。《夏書》曰‘唯箘輅枯’。木名也。” |
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