辜 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

gū

crime

Phonosemantic compound. 辛 represents the meaning and 古 represents the sound.

Components

辛 Meaning component

xīn

laborious

古 Sound component

gǔ

old

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

gū

crime, criminal offense; crime; sin

Gū

surname Gu

Most common words with 辜

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	无辜	innocent
	辜负	to let down
	辜	crime
	辜振甫	Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat
	死有余辜	death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.2673% of movies

1555th most common character in movies

2596th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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