zhū

small

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

朱 sound component

  Sound component

zhū

  

red pigment

Definitions

 

zhū

small, little, tiny, dwarf; dwarf

Most common words with 侏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

侏儒

dwarf

侏罗纪

Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)

dwarf

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*to

tsyu

zhū

侏儒 zhūrú 'dwarf'


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.7780% of movies

2748th most common character in movies

3674th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+4F8F


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