xū, xù
grieved
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 頊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
grieved | ||
Zhuan Xu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wǔdì], grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huángdì], trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰ(r)ok | xjowk | xù | disconcerted |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3579th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+980A |
Shuowen | “頊，頭頊頊謹皃。从頁，玉聲。” |
Sources
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