Chinese Character Wiki

鞠

jū

bow

Components
革 meaning component

革  Meaning component

gé

  

leather

leather

匊 sound component

匊  Sound component

jū

  

handful

Evolution

鞠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鞠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鞠  

jū

bow, bend; rear, raise, nourish; to bring up; to rear; Taiwan pr. [jú]

鞠  

Jū

surname Ju

Most common words with 鞠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鞠躬

to bow

鞠

to rear

鞠躬尽瘁

to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9061% of movies

2882nd most common character in movies

3037th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+97A0

Shuowen

“鞠，踏鞠也。从革，匊聲。，鞠或从。”


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