jiù
old
Original meaning:
type of owl
Phonosemantic compound. 雈 represents the meaning and 臼 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "type of owl". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-kʷəʔ-s | gjuwH | jiù | old |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 34.0862% of movies
1155th most common character in movies
915th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+820A |
Shuowen | “舊，舊，舊留也。从萑，臼聲。鵂，舊或从鳥，休聲。” |
Sources
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