to occupy, according to

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

居 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

live

Evolution

据 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
据 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

see 拮据[jié​jū]

 

variant of |[jù]

() 

to occupy, take possession of; a base; according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy

Most common words with 据
Freq.
Word
Meaning

according to

根据

according to

证据

evidence

数据

data

据说

reportedly