be diligent

Components
句 sound component

  Sound component

gōu

  

sentence

力 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

power

strength

Evolution

劬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
劬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

be diligent, toil, endeavor; labor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)o

gju

toil


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5106th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+52AC

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“劬,勞也。从力,句聲。”


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