gòu
form, structure
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 冓 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 構
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
mechanism | ||
structure | ||
to form | ||
to make up | ||
to construct (sth abstract) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.3564% of movies
1345th most common character in movies
511th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+69CB |
Shuowen | “構,蓋也。从木,冓聲。杜林以為椽桷字。” |
Sources
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