liú

pure gold

Evolution

鏐 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
鏐 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
鏐 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
鏐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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liú

pure gold; fine gold

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]iw

ljiw

liú

fine gold

*[r]iw

ljuw

liú

fine gold


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6408th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+93D0

Shuowen

“鏐,弩眉也。一曰黃金之美者。从金,翏聲。”


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