jù
suddenly
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 豦 represents the sound.
Components
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
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)a(k)-s | gjoH | jù | post horse or carriage |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3949th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+907D |
Shuowen | “遽,傳也。一曰窘也。从辵,豦聲。” |
Sources
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