qū, oū
area
Depicts a group of things (品) in an enclosed area.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤ(r)o | 'uw | ōu | (a measure) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 62.8544% of movies
561st most common character in movies
265th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5340 |
Shuowen | “區,踦區,藏匿也。从品在匸中。品,眾也。” |
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