gǔ
gurgle; rapid; regulate river
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the sound and 曰 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʷ]ˤ[ə]t | kwot | gǔ | regulate (rivers) |
*[ɢʷ]rət | hwit | yù | flow; go fast |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4342nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6C69 |
Shuowen | “汩，治水也。从水，曰聲。” |
Sources
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