固
hard; strong; solid; sure; assuredly; undoubtedly; of course; indeed; admittedly
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #998 U+56FA
How 固 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
囗 (semantic, “border”) + 古 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
solid · Heisig RSH #548
pent in + 古 ancient
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 古
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 古 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound component | gǔ | old, classic, ancient |
| 苦 | kǔ | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| 胡 | hú | recklessly, foolishly; wildly |
| 居 | jū | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit |
| 故 | gù | reason, cause; happening, instance |
| 估 | gū | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume |
| 咕 | gū | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble |
| 鸪 | gū | species of Taiwan pigeon |
| 沽 | gū | to buy and sell; of inferior quality |
| 蛄 | gū | mole cricket |
| 辜 | gū | crime, offense, sin |
| 祜 | hù | blessings, happiness, prosperity |
| 怙 | hù | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) |
| 钴 | gǔ | cobalt; clothes-iron |
| 罟 | gǔ | net, snare; to implicate |
| 诂 | gǔ | explanation; to comment, to explain |
| 骷 | kū | skeleton |
| 嘏 | gǔ | felicity, prosperity; large and strong |
| 轱 | gū | wheel; to revolve, to turn |
Words containing 固
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 固体物理 | gù tǐ wù lǐ | solid state physics |
| 固体食物 | gù tǐ shí wù | solid foods; solids |
| 固有名词 | gù yǒu míng cí | proper noun |
| 固安县 | Gù ān Xiàn | Gu'an, a county in Langfang City 廊坊市[Lang2 fang2 Shi4], Hebei |
| 固定电话 | gù dìng diàn huà | fixed-line telephone; landline telephone |
| 西固区 | Xī gù Qū | Xigu, a district of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市[Lan2 zhou1 Shi4], Gansu |
| 固网电信 | gù wǎng diàn xìn | landline (fixed-line) telecommunications |
| 城固县 | Chéng gù Xiàn | Chenggu, a county in Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市[Han4 zhong1 Shi4], Shaanxi |
| 固阳县 | Gù yáng Xiàn | Guyang, a county in Baotou City 包頭市|包头市[Bao1 tou2 Shi4], Inner Mongolia |
| 固定点 | gù dìng diǎn | fixed point; calibration point |
| 固原市 | Gù yuán Shì | Guyuan, prefecture-level city in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 … |
| 固定收入 | gù dìng shōu rù | fixed income |
| 固有词 | gù yǒu cí | native words (i.e. not derived from Chinese, in Korean and Japanese etc) |
| 防风固沙 | fáng fēng gù shā | sand break (in desert environment) |
| 固形物 | gù xíng wù | solid particles in liquid |
| 固定资产 | gù dìng zī chǎn | fixed assets |
| 固定词组 | gù dìng cí zǔ | set phrase |
| 固定型思维 | gù dìng xíng sī wéi | fixed mindset (as opposed to growth mindset) |
| 固形量 | gù xíng liàng | (Tw) (on packaging) drained weight |
| 固化 | gù huà | to solidify; to harden; (fig.) to make permanent; to become fixed |