Chinese Character Wiki

堀

kū

cave

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

earth

屈 sound component

屈  Sound component

qū

  

bend

Evolution

堀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
堀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

堀  

kū

cave, hole; cave; hole

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤut

khwot

kū

hole


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5373rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5800

Shuowen

“堀，突也。《詩》曰：‘蜉蝣堀閱。’从土，屈省聲。”


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