shū

express

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
予 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

give

扌 sound component

  Sound component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

Evolution

抒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
抒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
抒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
抒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shū

express; eliminate; relieve; to express; to give expression to; variant of |[shū]; to relieve

Most common words with 抒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抒情

lyric

抒发

to give vent

to express

各抒己见

everyone gives their own view

抒情诗

lyric poetry

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə-laʔ

zyoX

shū

remove (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3071st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6292

Shuowen

“抒,挹也。从手,予聲。”


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