chóu
anxiety
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 秋 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 愁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to worry about | ||
to worry | ||
to be worried | ||
with a worried frown | ||
to worry |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]riw | dzrjuw | chóu | grieved |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 5.4781% of movies
2449th most common character in movies
2113th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6101 |
Shuowen | “愁，憂也。从心，秋聲。” |
Sources
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