zōu

mounted escort

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

horse

芻 sound component

  Sound component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Evolution

騶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
騶 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
騶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zōu

mounted escort; groom; groom or chariot driver employed by a noble (old)

() 

Zōu

surname Zou

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[ts]ˤro(k)-s

dzrjuwH

zhòu

to run

*[ts]ˤro

tsrjuw

zōu

groom


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5979th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A36

Shuowen

“騶,廏御也。从馬,芻聲。”


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