chóu
farmland
Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 壽 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 疇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
category | ||
class | ||
level farmland | ||
Xichou county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[WénshānZhuàngzúMiáozúzìzhìzhōu], Yunnan | ||
Xichou county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[WénshānZhuàngzúMiáozúzìzhìzhōu], Yunnan |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ru | drjuw | chóu | in the past, yesterday |
*[d]ru | drjuw | chóu | plowed field |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2699th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7587 |
Shuowen | “,耕治之田也。从田,象耕屈之形。,或省。” |
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