guī
extraordinary, precious stone
Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 鬼 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤuj | kwoj | guī | kind of precious stone |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.2951% of movies
2166th most common character in movies
2492nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7470 |
Shuowen | “瑰,玫瑰。从玉,鬼聲。一曰圜好。” |
Sources
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