què

close

Evolution

闋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
闋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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què

close, shut; watch tower; (literary) to end; to stop; one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem |[cí]; classifier for songs or ci poems

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷʰˤi[t]

khwet

què

finish, end


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4929th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+95CB

Shuowen

“闋,事已,閉門也。从門,癸聲。”


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