chóu

chip

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

壽 sound component

  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

籌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chóu

chip, tally, token; raise money; chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket; to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds); resource; means

Most common words with 籌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

ticket

筹码

bargaining chip

筹备

preparations

筹集

to collect money

筹款

fundraising

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.9173% of movies

1743rd most common character in movies

1677th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+7C4C

Shuowen

“籌,壺矢也。从竹,壽聲。”


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