kuí

thoroughfare

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

walk

坴 sound component

  Sound component

  

a clod of earth

Evolution

逵 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
逵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
逵 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
逵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kuí

thoroughfare, crossroads; crossroads; thoroughfare

Most common words with 逵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

crossroads

李逵

Li Kui, character in the novel Water Margin 水滸全傳|水浒全传[Shuǐ​hǔ​quán​zhuàn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ʷru

gwij

kuí

thoroughfare


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3778th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+9035

Shuowen

“馗,九達道也。似龜背,故謂之馗。馗,高也。从九从首。逵,馗或从辵从坴。”


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