Chinese Character Wiki

沮

jǔ

stop

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

且 sound component

且  Sound component

qiě

  

moreover

Evolution

沮 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
沮 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
沮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沮 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
沮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沮  

jǔ

stop, prevent; defeated, dejected; to destroy; to stop

Most common words with 沮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沮丧

dispirited

沮

to stop

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

菹

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]aʔ

dzjoX

jǔ

stop, prevent


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.5307% of movies

2056th most common character in movies

2878th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CAE

Shuowen

“沮，水。出漢中房陵，東入江。从水，且聲。”


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