gǔ, gū
hub of wheel
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 㱿 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤok | kuwk | gǔ | nave of a wheel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5052nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F42 |
Shuowen | “轂,輻所湊也。从車,聲。” |
Sources
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