Chinese Character Wiki
夥

huǒ

companion

Phonosemantic compound. 多 represents the meaning and 果 represents the sound.

Components
多 meaning component

多  Meaning component

duō

  

much

果 sound component

果  Sound component

guǒ

  

fruit

Evolution

夥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
夥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

夥  

huǒ

companion; partner; assistant; many; numerous

伙 (夥) 

huǒ

group; classifier for groups of people; to combine; together

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[gʷˤ]ajʔ

hwaX

huǒ

many, much [not pre-Qin]


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.6888% of movies

3068th most common character in movies

4577th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5925

Shuowen

“，齊謂多為，从多，果聲。”


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