gū
crime
Phonosemantic compound. 辛 represents the meaning and 古 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 辜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
innocent | ||
to let down | ||
crime | ||
Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat | ||
death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.2673% of movies
1555th most common character in movies
2596th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8F9C |
Shuowen | “辜,辠也。从辛,古聲。,古文辜从死。” |
Sources
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