extreme

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

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

及 sound component

  Sound component

  

extend

Evolution

极 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
极 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

extreme, utmost, furthest, final

() 

extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top

Most common words with 极
Freq.
Word
Meaning

极了

extremely

积极

active

extremely

极大

maximum

极其

extremely

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 65.8017% of movies

581st most common character in movies

363rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

Traditional

Unicode

U+6781

Shuowen

“极,驢上負也。从木,及聲。或讀若急。”


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