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瑰

guī

extraordinary, precious stone

Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 鬼 represents the sound.

Components
玉 meaning component

玉  Meaning component

yù

  

jade

鬼 sound component

鬼  Sound component

guǐ

  

ghost

Evolution

瑰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

瑰  

guī

extraordinary, fabulous; rose; (semiprecious stone); extraordinary

瑰 (瓌) 

guī

old variant of 瑰[guī]

Most common words with 瑰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

玫瑰

rose flower

玫瑰花

rose

瑰宝

gem

瑰丽

elegant

瑰

extraordinary

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤuj

kwoj

guī

kind of precious stone


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.2951% of movies

2166th most common character in movies

2492nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7470

Shuowen

“瑰，玫瑰。从玉，鬼聲。一曰圜好。”


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