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炬
jù HSK7

torch

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 巨 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
巨
巨 Sound component
jù large

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɡaʔ
Unicodeghiǔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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