qiú
fur garments
Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 求 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 裘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
fur | ||
many a mickle makes a muckle | ||
to follow in one's father's footsteps | ||
fig. to live in luxury | ||
lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷə | gjuw | qiú | fur garment |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.6407% of movies
3047th most common character in movies
2868th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+88D8 |
Shuowen | “裘,皮衣也。从衣,求聲。一曰象形,與衰同意。求,古文省衣。” |
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