Chinese Character Wiki

蓄

xù

store

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

plant

畜 sound component

畜  Sound component

chù, xù

  

livestock

Evolution

蓄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蓄 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
蓄 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蓄  

xù

store, save, hoard, gather; to store up; to grow (e.g. a beard); to entertain (ideas)

Most common words with 蓄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

储蓄

to save

积蓄

to save

蓄意

deliberate

蓄

to store up

含蓄

to contain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ<r>uk

trhjuwk

xù

store (v.)

*qʰuk

xjuwk

xù

collect; store (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.4804% of movies

2286th most common character in movies

1985th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+84C4

Shuowen

“蓄，積也。从艸，畜聲。”


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