jiù
coffin which contains corpse
A wooden 木 coffin 匛; 匛 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷə-s | gjuwH | jiù | coffin (with corpse) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4568th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67E9 |
Shuowen | “柩，棺也。从匚，从木，久聲。匶，籀文柩。” |
Sources
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