jú, jié
Chinese bellflower
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 吉 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.7460% of movies
2996th most common character in movies
3304th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6854 |
Shuowen | “桔,桔梗,藥名。从木,吉聲。一曰直木。” |
Sources
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