呪 zhòu curse Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 咒 zhòu variant 呪 to curse verbnoun to wish ill upon someone or to use malicious words to abuse and revile others incantation noun (bound form) a magic spell or secret verbal formula used in religious or mystical rituals to ward off evil or command spirits to swear (bound form) to take an oath or make a solemn vow mantra (bound form) a transliterated Buddhist chant or verse (dharani) to pray (literary) to offer prayers to a deity or spirits Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 11.3 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 6.52 per million Details Strokes 8 Unicode U+546A Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
咒 zhòu variant 呪 to curse verbnoun to wish ill upon someone or to use malicious words to abuse and revile others incantation noun (bound form) a magic spell or secret verbal formula used in religious or mystical rituals to ward off evil or command spirits to swear (bound form) to take an oath or make a solemn vow mantra (bound form) a transliterated Buddhist chant or verse (dharani) to pray (literary) to offer prayers to a deity or spirits Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions
