chǒu
clown
Phonosemantic compound. 鬼 represents the meaning and 酉 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t.qʰuʔ | tsyhuwX | chǒu | ugly; evil |
*t.qʰuʔ | tsyhuwX | chǒu | category |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.5486% of movies
1272nd most common character in movies
1901st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+919C |
Shuowen | “醜，可惡也。从鬼，酉聲。” |
Sources
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