kuí
cheekbone
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 馗
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
high | ||
(fig.) a person with the courage to fight against evil |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷru | gwij | kuí | thoroughfare |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4618th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+9997 |
Shuowen | “馗，九達道也。似龜背，故謂之馗。馗，高也。从九从首。逵，馗或从辵从坴。” |
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