què

solid

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

角 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎojué

  

horn

Evolution

确 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
确 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
确 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
确 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

què

variant of |[què]; variant of [què]

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què

sure, certain; real, true; authenticated; solid; firm; real; true

Most common words with 确
Freq.
Word
Meaning

确定

definite

确实

indeed

的确

really

正确

correct

明确

clear-cut

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 94.4898% of movies

240th most common character in movies

331st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+786E

Shuowen

“确,礊石也。从石,角聲。,确或从。”


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