jiǔ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (variant) old form of 韭 (Chinese chives; leek)

Examples

Jiǔ shì jiǔ cài de gǔ xiěfǎ.
This is an older written form of 韭, Chinese chives.

Tips

history
is not used in modern Chinese; it is an old variant of (Chinese chives), formed by adding the grass radical on top of the original plant pictograph to make the plant sense explicit. Modern Chinese keeps only the plain .
register
Archaic variant only; always write (as in ) today.

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant
is the grass radical, the top-position form of . It was added here only to label the character explicitly as a plant — the meaning was already complete in alone.
pictograph
jiǔ
chives; leek
is itself a pictograph: blades of chives growing in a row above the ground line. It already meant chives on its own; just dresses it with a redundant grass cap.

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Stroke Order

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