gǔ
blind
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 鼓 represents the sound. Originally written as 𠑹, which depicts a blind person holding a cane with a missing lower eyelid.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤaʔ | kuX | gǔ | blind |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5909th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+77BD |
Shuowen | “瞽，目但有眹也。从目，鼓聲。” |
Sources
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