Chinese Character Wiki

狙

jū

an ape

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

且 sound component

且  Sound component

qiě

  

moreover

Evolution

狙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
狙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

狙  

jū

an ape, monkey; to spy, watch for; to lie; macaque; to spy; to lie in ambush

Most common words with 狙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

狙击手

sniper

狙击

to snipe (shoot from hiding)

狙

macaque

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0434% of movies

2382nd most common character in movies

3621st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+72D9

Shuowen

“狙，玃屬。从犬，且聲。一曰狙犬也暫齧人者。一曰犬不齧人也。”


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