qú, jù
ditch
A ditch 洰 made of wood 木; 洰 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 渠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
means | ||
lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom) | ||
big | ||
channel | ||
canal |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)a | gjo | qú | canal |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 3.0754% of movies
2804th most common character in movies
2315th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6E20 |
Shuowen | “渠,水所居。从水,榘省聲。” |
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