jǔ
carpenter's square
A wooden 木 carpenter's square 矩; 矩 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 榘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
rule | ||
array | ||
rule | ||
torque | ||
to act according to convention |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.8440% of movies
1584th most common character in movies
2160th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6998 |
Shuowen | “巨,規巨也。从工,象手持之。榘,巨或从木、矢,矢者,其中正也。,古文巨。” |
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