gù
look back, look after
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 雇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 顧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to take care of | ||
client | ||
adviser | ||
to look back | ||
to look after |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷˤaʔ-s (~ *[k]ʷˤaʔ) | kuH | gù | look around |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 59.8270% of movies
724th most common character in movies
815th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9867 |
Shuowen | “顧,還視也。从頁,雇聲。” |
Sources
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