chù

start

Evolution

俶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

chù

start, begin; beginning; arrange; to begin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰuk

tsyhuwk

chù

commence


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+4FF6

Shuowen

“俶,善也。从人,叔聲。《詩》曰:‘令終有俶。’一曰始也。”


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