huò
catch, obtain
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 蒦 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-qʷˤrak | hweak | huò | catch (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 47.3170% of movies
877th most common character in movies
688th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7372 |
Shuowen | “獲,獵所獲也。从犬,蒦聲。” |
Sources
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