zhòu
curse
Variant of 咒. Derived from 祝, with the 礻 (show) component being replaced by 口 (mouth) component when the meaning extended to "curse". Depicts a kneeling person (卩) opening their mouth (口) to pray for disaster to happen on someone.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.5009% of movies
1554th most common character in movies
2286th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+546A |
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