chū

go out

Pictograph of a foot () exiting a cave ().

Components
止 iconic component

  Iconic component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

Depicts a foot.

凵 iconic component

  Iconic component

qiǎnkǎn

  

enclosure

Depicts a cave.

Evolution

出 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
出 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
出 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chū

go out, send out; stand; produce; to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

() 

chū

act; stanza; time, occasion; variant of [chū] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

Most common words with 出
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to go out

出来

to come out

出现

to appear

出去

to go out

提出

to propose

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (2 verified)

Sound component in 9 characters (1 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t-kʰut

tsyhwit

chū

go or come out

*t-kʰut-s

tsyhwijH

chuì

bring or take out


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9359% of movies

60th most common character in movies

28th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Simplified

Traditional

Unicode

U+51FA

Shuowen

“出,進也。象艸木益滋上出達也。”


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