gòu

marry

To know a woman's  secret  also provides the pronunciation

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

冓 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

gòu

  

a secluded place

Evolution

媾 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
媾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
媾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

gòu

marry; be on friendly terms with; to marry; to copulate

Most common words with 媾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

媾和

to make peace

交媾

to have sex

to marry

媾合

to copulate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤ(r)o-s

kuwH

gòu

2nd marriage


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4524th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5ABE

Shuowen

“媾,重也。从女,冓聲。《易》曰:‘匪寇媾。’”


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