zū
rent
Original meaning:
land tax
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "land tax". The meaning later shifted to "rent" and "hire".
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zū
rent, lease; rental; tax; to hire; to rent; to charter; to rent out; to lease out; rent; land tax
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 26.6218% of movies
1077th most common character in movies
1397th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+79DF |
Shuowen | “租，田賦也。从禾，且聲。” |
Sources
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