Chinese Character Wiki

銖

zhū

unit of weight

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 朱 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

朱 sound component

朱  Sound component

zhū

  

red pigment

Evolution

銖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
銖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
銖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
銖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
銖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

铢 (銖) 

zhū

unit of weight, one twenty-fourth of a Chinese ounce (liang); twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)

Most common words with 銖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

铢

twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)

泰铢

Thai baht

锱铢必较

to haggle over every cent (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3588th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

铢

Unicode

U+9296

Shuowen

“銖，權十分黍之重也。从金，朱聲。”


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