chǔ

foundation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

楚 sound component

  Sound component

chǔ

  

clear

Evolution

礎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
礎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chǔ

foundation stone, plinth; foundation; base

Most common words with 礎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

基础

base

base

基础课

basic course

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.2721% of movies

2316th most common character in movies

1014th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+790E

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“礎,礩也。从石,楚聲。”


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