zhū

name of a river in Shandong

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

朱 sound component

  Sound component

zhū

  

red pigment

Evolution

洙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
洙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
洙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
洙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhū

name of a river in Shandong; name of a river

 

Zhū

surname Zhu

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.5286% of movies

2741st most common character in movies

5496th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D19

Shuowen

“洙,水。出泰山蓋臨樂山,北出泗。从水,朱聲。”


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