hòu

meet unexpectedly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

后 sound component

  Sound component

hòu

  

queen, after

Evolution

逅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
逅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hòu

meet unexpectedly; to meet unexpectedly

Most common words with 逅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

邂逅

to meet by chance

to meet unexpectedly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤro-s

huwH

hòu

邂逅 xièhòu carefree (Odes 94.1–2, 118.2)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4468th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+9005

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“逅,邂逅也。从辵,后聲。”


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