Chinese Character Wiki
所

suǒ

place

Origin unclear. 戶 represents the sound.

Components
戶 sound component

戶  Sound component

hù

  

door

斤 unknown component

斤  Unknown component

jīn

  

axe

The original purpose of this component is unclear.

Evolution

所 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
所 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
所 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
所 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

所  

suǒ

place, location; numerary adjunct; actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 所
Freq.
Word
Meaning

所以

therefore

所

place

所有

all

所谓

so-called

有所

somewhat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-qʰ<r>aʔ

srjoX

suǒ

place (n.); that which

*qʰaʔ

xuX

suǒ

所所 = 許許 = 滸滸 sound of hewing wood


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 99.8238% of movies

80th most common character in movies

54th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6240

Shuowen

“所，伐木聲也。从斤，戶聲。”


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