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艘
sōu HSK7

counter for ships

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 舟 represents the meaning and 叟 represents the sound.

Components

舟
舟 Meaning component
zhōu boat
叟
叟 Sound component
sǒu, sōu, xiāo old man

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsuːw
sɯːw
Unicodeseu
sɑu

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Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang