shòu
beast
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
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 |
*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s | syuwH | shòu | (wild) animal |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.3612% of movies
1462nd most common character in movies
1602nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7378 |
Shuowen | “獸,守備者。从嘼,从犬。” |
Sources
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