appeal

To beg  by playing a bamboo flute  also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

龥 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

beg

Evolution

籲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

appeal; request; implore

() 

to implore

Most common words with 籲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

呼吁

an appeal

sh

气喘吁吁

to pant

长吁短叹

long moan and short gasp (idiom); continually moaning and groaning in pain

气吁吁

to pant

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6819% of movies

3055th most common character in movies

2138th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

32

Unicode

U+7C72

Shuowen

“,呼也。从頁,籥聲,讀與籥同。《商書》曰:‘率眾戚。’”


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