𥬔
qū

ancient woven bamboo rice-vessel

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Phonosemantic compound. 竹 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound.

Components

⺮
⺮ Meaning component
zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

去
去 Sound component
qù go away

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

說文解字

《說文》：“，盧，飯器。，或从竹，去聲。”

Sources

Character origin
zi.tools
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)