zhōu
boat
Pictograph of a boat.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 34 characters (5 verified)
船 航 艦 舰 俞 艇 艘 舱 艙 舶 舵 舷 舫 艄 舸 舻 舢 艉 艏 舨 艚 艟 舳 艨 舴 舭 艋 舡 舲 艎 舣 艅 舾 舯
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tu | tsyuw | zhōu | boat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.5629% of movies
2621st most common character in movies
2224th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+821F |
Shuowen | “舟,船也。古者共鼓、貨狄刳木為舟,剡木為楫,以濟不通。象形。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.682-683
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