fear

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

具 sound component

  Sound component

  

tool

Evolution

惧 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
惧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
惧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
惧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

fear, be afraid of, dread; to fear

Most common words with 惧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恐惧

fear

畏惧

to fear

to fear

惧怕

to be afraid

恐惧症

phobia

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 21.3840% of movies

1412th most common character in movies

1616th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+60E7


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