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獨

dú

alone

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 蜀 represents the sound.

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

蜀 sound component

蜀  Sound component

shǔ

  

short name for Sichuan

Evolution

獨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

独 (獨) 

dú

alone, single, solitary, only; alone; independent; single; sole; only

Most common words with 獨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

独立

independent

单独

alone

孤独

lonely

独自

alone

独特

unique

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤok

duwk

dú

alone; only


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 62.5661% of movies

674th most common character in movies

627th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

独

Unicode

U+7368

Shuowen

“獨，犬相得而鬭也。从犬，蜀聲。羊為羣，犬為獨也。一曰北囂山有獨獸，如虎，白身，豕鬣，尾如馬。”


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