jiū
examine, scrutinize
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 究
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
research | ||
after all | ||
research institute | ||
graduate student | ||
to investigate |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k](r)u(ʔ)-s | kjuwH | jiū | scrutinize; go to the end |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 46.2118% of movies
864th most common character in movies
429th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+7A76 |
Shuowen | “究,窮也。从穴,九聲。” |
Sources
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