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覺

jué, jiào

feel, think

Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and a remnant of 學 represents the sound.

Components
見 meaning component

見  Meaning component

jiàn, xiàn

  

see

學 sound,remnant component

學  Sound Remnant component

xué

  

learning

Evolution

覺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
覺 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
覺 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

觉 (覺) 

jué

to wake up from sleep; conscious; to feel; to find that; thinking; awake; aware

觉 (覺) 

jiào

a nap; a sleep; CL:場|场[cháng]

Most common words with 覺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

觉得

to think

感觉

to feel

睡觉

to go to bed

觉

to feel

自觉

conscious

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

攪

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤruk-s

kaewH

jiào

awaken

*kˤruk

kaewk

jué

be aware


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.9909% of movies

93rd most common character in movies

327th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

觉

Unicode

U+89BA

Shuowen

“覺，寤也。从見，學省聲。一曰發也。”


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