zhòu

helmet

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as , which depicts a helmet worn by warriors.

Components
由 sound,iconic component

  Sound Iconic component

yóu

  

cause

Depicts a kind of helmet worn by warriors.

⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

Evolution

胄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhòu

helmet, headpiece; descendant; helmet; descendants

Most common words with 胄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

helmet

甲胄

armor

贵胄

descendants of feudal aristocrats

华胄

(literary) Han people

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4268th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+80C4

Shuowen

“胄,胤也。从肉,由聲。”


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