zhù
pray for happiness or blessings
Depicts a kneeling person (卩) in front of a memorial tablet (礻) opening their mouth (口) to pray.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]uk-s | tsyuwH | zhòu | to curse |
*[t]uk | tsyuwk | zhù | pray, recite |
*tuk | tsyuwk | zhù | cut off, break |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 56.6875% of movies
713th most common character in movies
1651st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+795D |
Shuowen | “祝,祭主贊詞者。从示,从人、口。一曰从兌省。《易》曰:‘兌,為口為巫。’” |
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