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仇

chóu, qiú

enemy

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

九 sound component

九  Sound component

jiǔ

  

nine

Evolution

仇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仇  

chóu

enemy, hate, hatred, enmity; hatred; animosity; enmity; foe; enemy; to feel animosity toward (the wealthy, foreigners etc)

仇  

Qiú

surname Qiu

仇  

qiú

spouse; companion

Most common words with 仇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

复仇

to avenge

仇

hatred

仇恨

to hate

报仇

to avenge

仇人

foe

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)u

gjuw

qiú

mate (*n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 18.4046% of movies

1480th most common character in movies

1536th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4EC7

Shuowen

“仇，讎也。从人，九聲。”


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