Chinese Character Wiki

崛

jué

towering

Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 屈 represents the sound.

Components
山 meaning component

山  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

屈 sound component

屈  Sound component

qū

  

bend

Evolution

崛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
崛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

崛  

jué

towering, eminent; rise abruptly; towering as a peak

Most common words with 崛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

崛起

to tower over

崛

towering as a peak

崛立

to tower over

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3068th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5D1B

Shuowen

“崛，山短高也。从山，屈聲。”


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