sōu

counter for ships

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
舟 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhōu

  

boat

叟 sound component

  Sound component

sǒu

  

old man

Definitions

 

sōu

counter for ships, vessels; classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sāo]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.2424% of movies

1713th most common character in movies

1470th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8258


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