jiūjiù

grand

Components

Meaning component
zǒu walk

walk

Sound component
jiū join

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkrɯw
krɯwʔ

說文解字

輕勁有才力也。从走丩聲。讀若鐈。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica