zhù
pillar
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 主 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-t<r>oʔ | drjuX | zhù | pillar |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 6.1829% of movies
2312th most common character in movies
1691st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67F1 |
Shuowen | “柱，楹也。从木，主聲。” |
Sources
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