zhōu

shaft

Evolution

輈 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
輈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
輈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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zhōu

shaft; (literary) shaft (of a cart); cart

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6996th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8F08

Shuowen

“輈,轅也。从車,舟聲。,籀文輈。”


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