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顧

gù

look back, look after

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 雇 represents the sound.

Components
雇 sound component

雇  Sound component

gù

  

employ

頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head.

Evolution

顧 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
顧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
顧 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
顧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

顾 (顧) 

gù

look back; look at; look after; to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to

顾 (顧) 

Gù

surname Gu

Most common words with 顧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

照顾

to take care of

顾客

client

顾问

adviser

回顾

to look back

顾

to look after

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤaʔ-s (~ *[k]ʷˤaʔ)

kuH

gù

look around


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 59.8270% of movies

724th most common character in movies

815th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

顾

Unicode

U+9867

Shuowen

“顧，還視也。从頁，雇聲。”


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