chóu

enemy

Evolution

讎 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
讎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讎 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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chóu

enemy, rival, opponent; to collate; to proofread; variant of [chóu]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]u

dzyuw

chóu

pay back; enemy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5545th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B8E

Shuowen

“讎,猶也。从言,雔聲。”


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