zōu

corner

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

place

取 sound component

  Sound component

  

take

Evolution

陬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
陬 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
陬 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zōu

corner, cranny, nook, niche; corner; foot of mountain

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6221st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+966C

Shuowen

“陬,阪隅也。从,取聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License