shù, zhú
art
Original meaning:
city road
Simplified form of 術. Phonosemantic compound. 行 represents the meaning and 朮 represents the sound. The traditional component 行 was removed for simplification. Based on the original meaning "city road". The meaning later shifted to "way", "method", "technique", and "skill".
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 57.9369% of movies
522nd most common character in movies
328th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+672F |
Shuowen | “秫,稷之黏者。从禾、术,象形。术,秫或省禾。” |
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