zǔ
curse
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.4483% of movies
1980th most common character in movies
3171st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A5B |
Shuowen | “詛，詶也。从言，且聲。” |
Sources
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