liú

famous horse

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

horse

留 sound component

  Sound component

liú

  

to stay

Evolution

騮 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
騮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
騮 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
騮 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
騮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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liú

famous horse; bay horse with black mane

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6427th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A2E

Shuowen

“驑,赤馬黑毛尾也。从馬,畱聲。”


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