Chinese Character Wiki

苟

gǒu

careless

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 句 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

句 sound component

句  Sound component

jù, gōu

  

sentence

Evolution

苟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
苟 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
苟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
苟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
苟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

苟  

gǒu

careless, frivolous; illicit; grammatical particle: if, but, if only; surname; grass name; distinguish DKW 30853 (ji4); if; supposing; careless; negligent; temporarily

苟  

Gǒu

surname Gou

Most common words with 苟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

苟

if

一丝不苟

meticulous

苟延残喘

to struggle on whilst at death's door (idiom)

苟同

to agree blindly

不敢苟同

to beg to differ (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤ(r)oʔ

kuwX

gǒu

if really


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5949% of movies

2933rd most common character in movies

2886th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+82DF

Shuowen

“苟，艸也。从艸，句聲。”


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