chù

dismiss

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
hēi black
Sound component
chū go out

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttrhwitt.kʰ<r>utexpel
Zhengzhangl̥ʰud
Unicodetjuit

說文解字

貶下也。从黑出聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica