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豎

shù

perpendicular

Phonosemantic compound. 臤 represents the meaning and 豆 represents the sound.

Components
臤 meaning component

臤  Meaning component

qiān

  

to gouge out an eye

豆 sound component

豆  Sound component

dòu

  

bean

Evolution

豎 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
豎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
豎 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

竖 (豎) 

shù

vertical; perpendicular; upright; to erect; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

Most common words with 豎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

竖

to erect

竖起

to erect (a tent etc)

竖琴

harp

竖立

to erect

横竖

anyway

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]oʔ

dzyuX

shù

palace attendant; young man


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.4439% of movies

2634th most common character in movies

2505th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

竖

Unicode

U+8C4E

Shuowen

“豎，豎立也。从臤，豆聲。豎，籀文豎从殳。”


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