jiù
mother's brother
Phonosemantic compound. 男 represents the meaning and 臼 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 舅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
mother's brother | ||
maternal uncle | ||
(coll.) aunt | ||
(coll.) wife's younger brother | ||
mother's brother |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)uʔ | gjuwX | jiù | mother's brother |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8741% of movies
2281st most common character in movies
2375th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+8205 |
Shuowen | “，母之兄弟為，妻之父為外。从男，臼聲。” |
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