kū
cry
Depicts the howl (吅) of a dog (犬).
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 哭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to cry | ||
to weep | ||
sound of weeping | ||
to cry bitterly | ||
to wail |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]ˤok | khuwk | kū | weep |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 34.4706% of movies
1020th most common character in movies
1210th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+54ED |
Shuowen | “哭，哀聲也。从吅，獄省聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.106
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