zhuó
to sprout
Sprouting 出 grass 艹; 出 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhuó
to sprout, flourish; sprouts appearing above-ground; vigorous; to display vigorous, new growth; to sprout
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-[k]rot | tsrjwet | zhuó | sprout (v.) |
*s-[k]rot (tsrj- > tsr-) | tsrweat | zhuó | sprout (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4472nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+8301 |
Shuowen | “茁，艸初生出地皃。从艸，出聲。《詩》曰：‘彼茁者葭。’” |
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