hú
jar
Pictograph of a pot used for holding liquids.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](ʷ)ˤa | hu | hú | flask |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.5010% of movies
2531st most common character in movies
2518th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+58FA |
Shuowen | “壺，昆吾圜器也。象形。从大，象其蓋也。” |
Sources
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