qū
hasten, approach
Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 芻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ʰro | tsrhju | qū | hasten |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.7871% of movies
2864th most common character in movies
1486th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8DA8 |
Shuowen | “趨,走也。从走,芻聲。” |
Sources
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