qǔ
tooth decay
Phonosemantic compound. 齒 represents the meaning and 禹 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3496th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9F72 |
Shuowen | “，齒蠹也。从牙，禹聲。齲，或从齒。” |
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