zōu

name of an ancient state

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

芻 sound component

  Sound component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Evolution

鄒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鄒 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
鄒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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zōu

name of an ancient state; surname

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Zōu

surname Zou; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong Province

Most common words with 鄒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Zou

邹平

Zouping county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[Bīn​zhōu], Shandong

邹韬奋

Zou Taofen (1895-1944), journalist, political theorist and publisher

邹城

Zoucheng county level city in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Jǐ​níng], Shandong

邹城市

Zoucheng county level city in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Jǐ​níng], Shandong

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3139th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+9112

Shuowen

“鄒,魯縣,古邾國,帝顓頊之後所封。从邑,芻聲。”


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