hóu
throat
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 侯 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤ(r)o | huw | hóu | throat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.7641% of movies
1970th most common character in movies
2096th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5589 |
Shuowen | “喉，咽也。从口，侯聲。” |
Sources
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