沽 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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gū

buy and sell

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

古 Sound component

gǔ

old

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

gū

buy and sell; inferior in quality; to buy; to sell

Gū

abbr. for Tianjin 天津 (also 津沽)

Most common words with 沽

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	沽	to buy
	待价而沽	to wait for a good offer
	沽名钓誉	to angle for fame (idiom)
	泸沽湖	Lugu Lake
	塘沽	Tanggu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區\|滨海新区[Bīnhǎixīnqū]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3492nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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