qù
interesting
Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 取 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 趣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
interesting | ||
hobby | ||
delight | ||
to be interested | ||
interesting |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]ok | tshjowk | cù | urge, hasten, press |
*[tsʰ]oʔ-s | tshjuH | qù | hasten to |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 69.0213% of movies
584th most common character in movies
1065th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8DA3 |
Shuowen | “趣，疾也。从走，取聲。” |
Sources
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