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独

dú

alone

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 蜀 represents the sound. Simplified form of 獨.

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

虫 simplified component

虫  Simplified component

chóng

  

bug, insect

Shorthand for the phonetic 蜀 component in the traditional character 獨.

Evolution

独 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
独 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
独 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
独 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

独 (獨) 

dú

alone, single, solitary, only; alone; independent; single; sole; only

Most common words with 独
Freq.
Word
Meaning

独立

independent

单独

alone

孤独

lonely

独自

alone

独特

unique

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 62.5661% of movies

674th most common character in movies

627th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

獨

Unicode

U+72EC


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