Chinese Character Wiki

妯

zhóu

wives of one's brothers

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

woman

由 sound component

由  Sound component

yóu

  

cause

Evolution

妯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
妯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

妯  

zhóu

wives of one's brothers; sister-i; see 妯娌[zhóu​li]

Most common words with 妯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

妯娌

wives of brothers

妯

wives of brothers

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5343rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+59AF

Shuowen

“妯，動也。从女，由聲。”


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