zuó
yesterday
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤak | dzak | zuó | yesterday |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 60.8522% of movies
634th most common character in movies
1475th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6628 |
Shuowen | “昨，壘日也。从日，乍聲。” |
Sources
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