gǒu
dog
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 句 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.kˤroʔ | kuwX | gǒu | dog |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 48.7266% of movies
488th most common character in movies
1281st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+72D7 |
Shuowen | “狗,孔子曰:‘狗,叩也,叩气吠以守。’从犬,句聲。” |
Sources
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