shù

perpendicular

A person  standing as straight as a knife 

Components
刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

又 meaning component

  Meaning component

yòu

  

(hand), again

立 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

stand

Evolution

竖 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
竖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
竖 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
竖 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shù

vertical; perpendicular; upright; to erect; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

() 

shù

variant of |[shù]

Most common words with 竖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to erect

竖起

to erect (a tent etc)

竖琴

harp

竖立

to erect

横竖

anyway

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.4439% of movies

2634th most common character in movies

2505th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+7AD6


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