sú
social customs
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 谷 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-[ɢ]ok | zjowk | sú | ways, customs; vulgar |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.2239% of movies
1838th most common character in movies
1354th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+4FD7 |
Shuowen | “俗,習也。从人,谷聲。” |
Sources
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