shuò

great

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
石 sound component

  Sound component

shídàn

  

stone

頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

Evolution

碩 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
碩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
碩 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
碩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shuò

great, eminent; large, big; large; big

Most common words with 碩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

硕士

master's degree

large

硕大

big

丰硕

plentiful

硕果

great work

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]Ak

dzyek

shuò

great, stately


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8672% of movies

2707th most common character in movies

2304th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+78A9

Shuowen

“碩,頭大也。从頁,石聲。”


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