zhǒu
elbow
Originally written similar to 九, which depicts an elbow. Later the ⺼ (meat, flesh) component was added.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t-[k]<r>uʔ | trjuwX | zhǒu | elbow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.9313% of movies
2813th most common character in movies
3010th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+8098 |
Shuowen | “肘,臂節也。从肉,从寸。寸,手寸口也。” |
Sources
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