guǒ

wrap

Components
衣 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

clothes

果 sound component

  Sound component

guǒ

  

fruit

Evolution

裹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
裹 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
裹 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
裹 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guǒ

wrap, bind; encircle, confine; to bind; to wrap; a bundle; a parcel

Most common words with 裹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

包裹

to wrap up

to bind

裹足不前

to stand still without advancing (idiom); to hesitate and hold back

裹脚

foot-binding

马革裹尸

to be buried in a horse hide (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.[k]ˤo[r]ʔ

kwaX

guǒ

to wrap


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.0662% of movies

2028th most common character in movies

2387th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+88F9

Shuowen

“裹,纏也。从衣,果聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License