emperor

Evolution

嚳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嚳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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mythical emperor; to inform quickly; an urgent communication; one of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏

Most common words with 嚳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

one of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏

帝喾

Di Ku or Emperor Ku, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wǔ​dì], great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huáng​dì]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5708th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+56B3

Shuowen

“嚳,急告之甚也。从告,學省聲。”


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