懼
jù

fear

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approved by 龍龖龘𪚥167 · Jul 15, 2026, 06:09 PM · Reviewed by Marcus Ngai on Jul 18, 2026, 08:16 AM

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Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 瞿 represents the sound.

Components

忄
忄 Meaning component

忄 is a component form of 心.

瞿
瞿 Sound component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjuH[g]ʷ(r)a(k)-s fear (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“懼，恐也。从心，瞿聲。愳，古文。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)