zhǔ
small sand bank
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 渚
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
islet | ||
Liangzhu (c. 3400-2250 BC), neolithic culture of Changjiang delta | ||
Mengzhu mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*taʔ | tsyoX | zhǔ | islet |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4879th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6E1A |
Shuowen | “渚,水。在常山中丘逢山,東入湡。从水,者聲。《爾雅》曰:‘小洲曰渚。’” |
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