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籀

zhòu

Character

What 籀 means

1. literaryseal script used throughout the pre-Han period
2. to recite
3. to read (aloud)

Other readings

籀 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Zhòusurname Zhou

Words starting with 籀

• 籀文zhòu wénseal script used throughout the pre-Han period
• 籀书zhòu shūseal script used throughout the pre-Han period

Words containing 籀

• 史籀篇Shǐ zhòu piānShizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆

Sounds the same

Read zhòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 骤sudden; unexpected; abrupt
• 宙eternity; (geology) eon
• 昼daytime
• 皱to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
• 咒incantation; magic spell; curse
• 绉crepe; wrinkle
• 胄helmet; descendants
• 纣crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
• 甃brickwork of well
• 酎strong wine
• 㑇(old) beautiful; clever
• 㤘(dialect) stubborn

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhòu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.