jù, jū
a saw
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 居 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鋸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
a saw | ||
sawtooth | ||
electric saw (esp. electric chain saw) | ||
a saw | ||
to-and-fro tussle |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)a-s | kjoH | jù | saw (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1967% of movies
2384th most common character in movies
3078th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+92F8 |
Shuowen | “鋸，槍唐也。从金，居聲。” |
Sources
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