jiǎo, jué
horn
Pictograph of a horn.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[k]ˤrok | kaewk | jiǎo | horn, corner |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 58.0490% of movies
703rd most common character in movies
736th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+89D2 |
Shuowen | “角,獸角也。象形,角與刀魚相似。” |
Sources
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