shuí, shéi
who? whom? whose? anyone?
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]uj | dzywij | shuí | who |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 98.5584% of movies
159th most common character in movies
648th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AB0 |
Shuowen | “誰，何也。从言，隹聲。” |
Sources
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