shuò
great
Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the sound and 页 represents the meaning. Simplified form of 碩.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]Ak | dzyek | shuò | great, stately |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 2.8672% of movies
2707th most common character in movies
2304th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7855 |
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