jǔ
carpenter's square
Phonosemantic compound. 矢 represents the meaning and 巨 represents the sound. Originally written as 巨.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 矩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
rule | ||
array | ||
rule | ||
torque | ||
to act according to convention |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷ(r)aʔ | kjuX | jǔ | carpenter's square |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.8440% of movies
1584th most common character in movies
2160th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+77E9 |
Shuowen | “巨，規巨也。从工，象手持之。榘，巨或从木、矢，矢者，其中正也。，古文巨。” |
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