jù
severe, dramatic, theatrical play
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 豦 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 43.5047% of movies
718th most common character in movies
909th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5287 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“劇，尤甚也。从刀，未詳，豦聲。” |
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