chǔ
foundation
Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 楚 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.2721% of movies
2316th most common character in movies
1014th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+790E |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“礎，礩也。从石，楚聲。” |
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