hú
species of fox
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 瓜 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 狐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
fox | ||
fox | ||
Sohu, Chinese web portal and online media company | ||
fox-spirit | ||
a pack of rogues (idiom); a gang of scoundrels |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷˤa | hu | hú | fox |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.3409% of movies
2238th most common character in movies
2321st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+72D0 |
Shuowen | “狐，獸也，鬼所乘之。有三德：其色中和，小前大後，死則丘首。从犬，瓜聲。” |
Sources
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