zhù
chopsticks
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]<r>ak-s | drjoH | zhù | chopsticks |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5239th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+7BB8 |
Shuowen | “箸，飯敧也。从竹，者聲。” |
Sources
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