zhū
spider
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 朱 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tro | trju | zhū | *tre-tro spider |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.4621% of movies
1983rd most common character in movies
2653rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+86DB |
Shuowen | “鼄，鼄也。从黽，朱聲。蛛，鼄或从虫。” |
Sources
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