zǔ
class
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 54.4290% of movies
572nd most common character in movies
358th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D44 |
Shuowen | “組,綬屬。其小者,以為冕纓。从糸,且聲。” |
Sources
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