Chinese Character Wiki

筹

chóu

chip

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 寿 represents the sound. Simplified form of 籌.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

寿 sound component

寿  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

筹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
筹 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

筹 (籌) 

chóu

chip, tally, token; raise money; chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket; to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds); resource; means

Most common words with 筹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

筹

ticket

筹码

bargaining chip

筹备

preparations

筹集

to collect money

筹款

fundraising

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.9173% of movies

1743rd most common character in movies

1677th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

籌

Unicode

U+7B79


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