gǔ
corn
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 穀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
grain | ||
canyon | ||
valley | ||
Bangkok, capital of Thailand | ||
valley |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤok | kuwk | gǔ | grain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.3040% of movies
1543rd most common character in movies
1095th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7A40 |
Shuowen | “穀，續也，百穀之緫名。从禾，聲。” |
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