zhū
several
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 諸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
all | ||
(used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of | ||
(various things) such as | ||
etc | ||
Sirs |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ta | tsyo | zhū | many |
*ta | tsyo | zhū | (fusion of 之 + 於 *tə ʔa) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.5009% of movies
1967th most common character in movies
1021st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AF8 |
Shuowen | “諸，辯也。从言，者聲。” |
Sources
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