extreme

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

亟 sound component

  Sound component

  

urgently

Evolution

極 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
極 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
極 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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extreme, utmost, furthest, final; extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top

Most common words with 極
Freq.
Word
Meaning

极了

extremely

积极

active

extremely

极大

maximum

极其

extremely

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)ək

gik

extreme


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 65.8017% of movies

581st most common character in movies

363rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+6975

Shuowen

“極,棟也。从木,亟聲。”


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