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究

jiū

examine, scrutinize

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

九 sound component

九  Sound component

jiǔ

  

nine

Evolution

究 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

究  

jiū

examine, investigate; after all; to investigate; to study carefully; Taiwan pr. [jiù]

Most common words with 究
Freq.
Word
Meaning

研究

research

究竟

after all

研究所

research institute

研究生

graduate student

追究

to investigate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k](r)u(ʔ)-s

kjuwH

jiū

scrutinize; go to the end


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 46.2118% of movies

864th most common character in movies

429th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+7A76

Shuowen

“究，窮也。从穴，九聲。”


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