HSK4
jú
bureau
bent, curved
Phonosemantic compound. 尸 represents the meaning and 句 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bent, curved". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
尸 Meaning component
shī
sitting person
Depicts a person bending over.
句 Sound component
jù, gōu
sentence
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
局
bureau, office; circumstance; office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc
局 (侷)
narrow
office
结局
conclusion
局长
bureau chief
局面
aspect
出局
to eliminate
Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)
侷 鋦 锔 焗
Academia Sinica
Make Me a Hanzi
Unicode
Baxter-Sagart
Dong Chinese
CC-CEDICT
SUBTLEX-CH
MTSU Chinese text computing
季旭昇《說文新證》p.101