辜
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(bound form) crime; sin; (literary) to abandon; to betray
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,392 U+8F9C
How 辜 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辛 (semantic, “bitter”) + 古 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
crime · Heisig RSH #2551
古 ancient + chili pepper
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 |
| 固 | gù | to solidify; strength |
| 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 |
| 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 辜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 死有余辜 | sǐ yǒu yú gū | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment |
| 伤及无辜 | shāng jí wú gū | to harm the innocent (idiom) |
| 滥杀无辜 | làn shā wú gū | willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom) |
| 无辜 | wú gū | blameless; innocent; the innocent |
| 辜负 | gū fù | to fail to live up to (sb's expectations, trust or kindness); to let down |
| 辜振甫 | Gū Zhèn fǔ | Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat |
| 辜鸿铭 | Gū Hóng míng | Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857–1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language w… |