Chinese Character Wiki

錮

gù

run metal into cracks

To forge 固 metal 釒; 固 also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

固 sound,meaning component

固  Sound Meaning component

gù

  

to become solid

Evolution

錮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

锢 (錮) 

gù

run metal into cracks; confine; obstinate disease; to restrain; to stop

Most common words with 錮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

禁锢

to confine

锢

to stop

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤaʔ-s

kuH

gù

chronic (of illness)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3948th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

锢

Unicode

U+932E

Shuowen

“錮，鑄塞也。从金，固聲。”


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