hòu
thick, strong flavor
Depicts a jug of wine (𣆪) that has been aging in a cave (厂), thus having a strong flavor.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
hòu
thick; substantial; greatly; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.[g]ˤ(r)oʔ | huwX | hòu | thick |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 12.8464% of movies
1926th most common character in movies
1235th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+539A |
Shuowen | “厚，山陵之厚也。从，从厂。垕，古文厚，从后、土。” |
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