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裘

qiú

fur garments

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 求 represents the sound.

Components
衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

求 sound component

求  Sound component

qiú

  

seek

Evolution

裘 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
裘 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
裘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
裘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

裘  

qiú

fur garments; surname; fur; fur coat

裘  

Qiú

surname Qiu

Most common words with 裘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

裘

fur

集腋成裘

many a mickle makes a muckle

克绍箕裘

to follow in one's father's footsteps

肥马轻裘

fig. to live in luxury

貂裘换酒

lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ʷə

gjuw

qiú

fur garment


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.6407% of movies

3047th most common character in movies

2868th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+88D8

Shuowen

“裘，皮衣也。从衣，求聲。一曰象形，與衰同意。求，古文省衣。”


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