Chinese Character Wiki

竖

shù

perpendicular

Original meaning: 

servant

Based on the original meaning "servant". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
𰀡 meaning component

𰀡  Meaning component

qiān

  

to gouge out an eye

豆 sound,simplified component

豆  Sound Simplified component

dòu

  

bean

Evolution

竖 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
竖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
竖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
竖 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
竖 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

竖 (豎) 

shù

vertical; perpendicular; upright; to erect; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

竖 (竪) 

shù

variant of 豎|竖[shù]

Most common words with 竖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

竖

to erect

竖起

to erect (a tent etc)

竖琴

harp

竖立

to erect

横竖

anyway

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.4439% of movies

2634th most common character in movies

2505th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

豎

Unicode

U+7AD6


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