Chinese Character Wiki

彀

gòu

enough

Evolution

彀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

彀  

gòu

enough, adequate fully, quite; to draw a bow to the full; the range of a bow and arrow; old variant of 夠|够[gòu], enough

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤ(r)ok-s

kuwH

gòu

draw a bow to the full


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5457th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5F40

Shuowen

“彀，張弩也。从弓，聲。”


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