Chinese Character Wiki

樛

jiū

bending branches

Branches 木 bowing in the wind 翏; 翏 also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

翏 sound,meaning component

翏  Sound Meaning component

liù

  

to sweep away, to remove

Evolution

樛 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
樛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
樛 Seal script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
樛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

樛  

jiū

bending branches, bent limbs; to hang down

樛  

Jiū

surname Jiu

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k-riw (dialect: *k-r- > *kr-)

kjiw

jiū

down-curving (sc. branch)

*k-riw (dialect: > *k-r- > *kr-)

kjiw

jiū

twist (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6A1B

Shuowen

“樛，下句曰樛。从木，翏聲。”


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