zhòu

procedure

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

聚 sound component

  Sound component

  

assemble

Evolution

驟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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zhòu

procedure; gallop; sudden(ly); sudden; unexpected; abrupt; suddenly; Taiwan pr. [zòu]

Most common words with 驟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

步骤

step

sudden

骤然

suddenly

骤降

to plummet

骤雨

shower

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-tsˤroʔ-s

dzrjuwH

zhòu

fast-running


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6430% of movies

2893rd most common character in movies

2045th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A5F

Shuowen

“驟,馬疾步也。从馬,聚聲。”


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