ōu, oū
Europe
Original meaning:
vomit
Phonosemantic compound. 欠 represents the meaning and 區 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "vomit". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.1804% of movies
1146th most common character in movies
823rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6B50 |
Shuowen | “歐,吐也。从欠,區聲。” |
Sources
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