xiù

mountain peak

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

mountain

由 sound component

  Sound component

yóu

  

cause

Evolution

岫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
岫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
岫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiù

mountain peak; cave, cavern; cave

Most common words with 岫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

cave

岫岩县

Xiuyan Manzu autonomous county in Anshan 鞍山[An​shān], Liaoning

岫岩满族自治县

Xiuyan Manzu autonomous county in Anshan 鞍山[An​shān], Liaoning

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4745th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5CAB

Shuowen

“岫,山穴也。从山,由聲。,籀文从穴。”


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