hú
a lake
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 胡 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 湖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
lake | ||
rivers and lakes | ||
lakeside | ||
Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙[Chángshā] | ||
Hubei Province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂[E], capital Wuhan 武漢|武汉[Wǔhàn] |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤa | hu | hú | lake |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 11.5329% of movies
1633rd most common character in movies
918th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6E56 |
Shuowen | “湖，大陂也。从水，胡聲。揚州浸有五湖。浸，川澤所仰以灌溉也。” |
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