blind

Components
鼓 sound component

  Sound component

  

drum

目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

eye

Evolution

瞽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
瞽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瞽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

blind; blind musician; stupid; undiscerning

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤaʔ

kuX

blind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5909th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+77BD

Shuowen

“瞽,目但有眹也。从目,鼓聲。”


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