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构

gòu

form, structure

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 勾 represents the sound. Simplified form of 構.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

勾 sound component

勾  Sound component

gōu, gòu

  

hook

勾 is a component form of 句.

Evolution

构 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
构 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
构 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
构 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

构 (構) 

gòu

frame, building, structure; to construct; to form; to make up; to compose; literary composition; paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

构 (搆) 

gòu

variant of 構|构[gòu]; (Tw) (coll.) variant of 夠|够[gòu]; to reach by stretching

Most common words with 构
Freq.
Word
Meaning

机构

mechanism

结构

structure

构成

to form

虚构

to make up

构建

to construct (sth abstract)

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 25.3564% of movies

1345th most common character in movies

511th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

構

Unicode

U+6784


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