Chinese Character Wiki

馘

guó

cut off left ear

To cut off 或 the enemy's ears 首; 或 also provides the pronunciation

Components
首 meaning component

首  Meaning component

shǒu

  

head

或 sound,meaning component

或  Sound Meaning component

huò

  

or

Evolution

馘 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
馘 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
馘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
馘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

馘  

guó

cut off left ear; tally dead enemy; cut off the left ear of the slain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʷˤ<r>ək

kweak

guó

severed left ears


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6759th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+9998

Shuowen

“聝，軍戰斷耳也。《春秋傳》曰：‘以為俘聝。’从耳，或聲。馘，聝或从首。”


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