辜
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(bound form) crime; sin; (literary) to abandon; to betray
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辛 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 辜
- Common rank
- #3,392
- Unicode
- U+8F9C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 辜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 死有余辜 | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment | |
| 伤及无辜 | to harm the innocent (idiom) | |
| 滥杀无辜 | willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom) | |
| 无辜 | blameless; innocent; the innocent | |
| 辜负 | to fail to live up to (sb's expectations, trust or kindness); to let down | |
| 辜振甫 | Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat | |
| 辜鸿铭 | Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857–1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language w… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 古 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound part | old, classic, ancient | |
| 苦 | bitter; hardship, suffering | |
| 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 居 | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit | |
| 故 | reason, cause; happening, instance | |
| 固 | to solidify; strength | |
| 估 | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume | |
| 咕 | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble | |
| 鸪 | species of Taiwan pigeon | |
| 沽 | to buy and sell; of inferior quality | |
| 蛄 | mole cricket | |
| 祜 | blessings, happiness, prosperity | |
| 怙 | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) | |
| 钴 | cobalt; clothes-iron | |
| 罟 | net, snare; to implicate | |
| 诂 | explanation; to comment, to explain | |
| 骷 | skeleton | |
| 嘏 | felicity, prosperity; large and strong | |
| 轱 | wheel; to revolve, to turn |