chù, chǔ
place
Phonosemantic compound. 夂 represents the meaning and 虎 represents the sound.
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernchù
place, locale; department; place; location; spot; point; office; bureau; respect; classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point
chǔ
to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to reside | ||
to handle | ||
everywhere | ||
to be in (some state, position, or condition) | ||
benefit |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t.qʰaʔ | tsyhoX | chǔ | be at |
*t.qʰaʔ-s | tsyhoH | chù | place (n.) |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 93.4647% of movies
272nd most common character in movies
206th most common character in books
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8655 |
Shuowen | “処，止也，得几而止。从几，从夂。處，処或从虍聲。” |
