accuse

Variant of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
朔 sound component

  Sound component

shuò

  

first day of lunar month

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

愬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
愬 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
愬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

accuse; sue; inform; narrate

() 

variant of |[sù]

Most common words with 愬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

告诉

to tell

投诉

complaint

诉讼

lawsuit

起诉

to sue

to sue

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ŋˤak-s

suH

complain, accuse


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.5103% of movies

127th most common character in movies

595th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+612C

Shuowen

“訴,告也。从言,厈省聲。《論語》曰:‘訴子路於季孫。’,訴或从言、朔。愬,訴或从朔、心。”


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