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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jū | ju1
English translation
colt; fleet, swift; surname

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

horse

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

馬句

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

gōu

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and gōu represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
colt
马驹 mǎ jū young horse (colt or filly)馬駒
白驹过隙 bái jū guò xì a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!白駒過隙
龙驹 lóng jū fine horse龍駒
龙驹凤雏 lóng jū fèng chú brilliant young man龍駒鳳雛

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