què

solid

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

隺 sound component

  Sound component

què

  

(crane), very high

Definitions

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què

sure, certain; real, true; authenticated; solid; firm; real; true

Most common words with 確
Freq.
Word
Meaning

确定

definite

确实

indeed

的确

really

正确

correct

明确

clear-cut

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰˤrawk

khaewk

què

solid, firm


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 94.4898% of movies

240th most common character in movies

331st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+78BA


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