sù
accuse
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 斥 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-ŋˤak-s | suH | sù | complain, accuse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 98.5103% of movies
127th most common character in movies
595th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A34 |
Shuowen | “訴,告也。从言,厈省聲。《論語》曰:‘訴子路於季孫。’,訴或从言、朔。愬,訴或从朔、心。” |
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