户hù

户

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Simplified Chinese

户 (hù, "household" or "door") is a pictograph of a door flap or half-door, its simplified form unchanged from the traditional — a visual shorthand so effective that it has remained recognizable for millennia. As a radical, it appears in characters related to doors and households, such as 房 (room), 扇 (fan), and 扉 (door).

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Shuowen

户. The character is a pictogram of a door leaf, representing a door or household. In oracle bone script the form shows a single door leaf, the origin of the radical 户 for door-related characters. The shape signifies an entrance or dwelling.

Pinyin

hù· HSK 1

户hù

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