guī

small entrance

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
門 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

圭 sound component

  Sound component

guī

  

jade pointed at top

Evolution

閨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閨 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
閨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
閨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

guī

small entrance; women's quarters; small arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; by ext. women

Most common words with 閨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

boudoir

闺女

maiden

闺房

boudoir

深闺

boudoir

大家闺秀

girl from a wealthy family

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6659% of movies

3145th most common character in movies

3347th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+95A8

Shuowen

“閨,特立之戶,上圜下方,有似圭。从門,圭聲。”


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