shuí, shéi
who? whom? whose? anyone?
Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 98.5584% of movies
159th most common character in movies
648th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8C01 |
Sources
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