玖 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jiǔ

black-colored jade

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 久 represents the sound.

Components

王 Meaning component

wáng, wàng

king

久 Sound component

jiǔ

long time (ago)

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jiǔ

black-colored jade; black jade; nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5072nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+7396
Shuowen	“玖，石之次玉黑色者。从玉，久聲。《詩》曰：‘貽我佩玖。’讀若芑。或曰若人句脊之句。”

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