chū

a kind of animal like a tiger

Evolution

貙 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

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chū

a kind of animal like a tiger; fierce wild beasts; (archaic) animal resembling a tiger

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+8C99

Shuowen

“貙,貙獌似貍者。从豸,區聲。”


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