wù
fog
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 務 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kə.m(r)[o]k-s | mjuH | wù | fog, mist |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.6337% of movies
2040th most common character in movies
1670th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9727 |
Shuowen | “霚，地氣發天不應。从雨，敄聲。” |
Sources
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